🪑 A simple seat 💩 Solid waste 🚽 A toilet 🚻 To pass waste 🦆 To lure birds 🌱 To grow shoots 🪵 Tree stump

to stool

9.7

To grow new stems from a plant base, forming a small cluster

verb
/stuːl/

Specialized

: macollar

In early summer, the garden began to stool, creating a lush cluster of new growth.

Examples

Also, the Chinook caladiums are really starting to stool out and thicken up.
The experienced gardener recommended that I stool my perennials to encourage fuller plants next season.
As the weather warmed, the shrubs started to stool, filling the area with fresh shoots.

Synonyms

to tiller

vsto stool

Specialized

9.0

To grow new shoots from a plant's base to form clumps

produces shoots or stems forming a cluster or tuft not only new shoots

Compounds

stool pigeon

Offensive

3 8.9

A person who secretly gives information to the police

step stool

2 2.0

A small stool with one or two steps used to reach high places

high stool

1 3.5

A tall seat without a back used at a bar or kitchen counter

piano stool

1 2.8

A small seat for someone who plays the piano that can be raised or lowered

milking stool

1 6.0

A low three-legged stool for sitting while you milk a cow by hand

ducking stool

Archaic

1 9.9

A chair on a lever used to dunk people in water as public punishment in the past

stool test

Specialized

1 3.5

A medical test that checks a small sample of poo for blood or infection

cutty stool

Archaic

9.9

A low wooden stool in old Scottish churches where someone sat to be shamed

cucking stool

Archaic

9.9

A chair that ties a person and dips them in water as a public punishment

music stool

3.2

A seat without a back that piano players sit on

stool of easement

9.9

A low seat that is comfortable and easy to move

stool pigeon

Archaic

9.9

A fake bird used to attract or trap other birds

Surface Forms

stool infinitive

stooled past

stooled past participle

stooling present participle

stools third person singular

Etymology

The plant verb stool and the forestry noun stool are linked: a stool is the tree base or 'stump' that stays in the ground and sends up new shoots, so to stool is to produce many stems from the plant's base.