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Rootball
The mass of roots and associated soil that comes up with a plant lifted from the soil or from a container.
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The mass of roots and associated soil that comes up with a plant lifted from the soil or from a container.
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| Word | Definition |
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| root systemnoun | (botany) The structure comprising the roots of a plant. |
| rootnoun | The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction. |
| rooterynoun | (dated) A stumpery |
| rooternoun | (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something. |
| rootzonenoun | Alternative form of root zone [The region of soil in which the roots of plants can effectively extract water and nutrients essential for growth.] |
| root hairnoun | (biology) The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root. |
| rootingnoun | A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots. |
| rootlingnoun | a plantling just beginning to root. |
| rootstalknoun | (botany) Synonym of rhizome. |
| rootletnoun | One of the smallest roots, hair roots. |
| rootcapnoun | Alternative form of root cap. [(botany) A cap of cells covering the growing extremity of a root;] |
| root wordnoun | A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin. |
| clubrootnoun | (phytopathology) A common disease of cabbages, radishes, turnips, and other plants of the Cruciferae, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae, in which galls form on latent roots, rendering them clublike. |
| rootrotnoun | Alternative form of root rot. [(phytopathology) Any of several plant fungal diseases caused by having overwet roots.] |
| radiclenoun | (botany) The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo. |
| roothairnoun | Alternative form of root hair. [(biology) The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.] |
| rootholenoun | A hole in the ground formed by the growth of plant roots. |
| bulbnoun | A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape). |
| dendromassnoun | biomass composed of roots |
| aerial rootnoun | (botany) Any adventitious root that grows from a plant stem above ground. |
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