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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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root systemnoun(botany) The structure comprising the roots of a plant.
rootnounThe 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.
rootzonenounAlternative 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.
rootingnounA method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
rootlingnouna plantling just beginning to root.
rootstalknoun(botany) Synonym of rhizome.
rootletnounOne of the smallest roots, hair roots.
rootcapnounAlternative form of root cap. [(botany) A cap of cells covering the growing extremity of a root;]
root wordnounA 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.
rootrotnounAlternative 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.
roothairnounAlternative 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.]
rootholenounA hole in the ground formed by the growth of plant roots.
bulbnounA light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
dendromassnounbiomass composed of roots
aerial rootnoun(botany) Any adventitious root that grows from a plant stem above ground.

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