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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Rootlet"

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Word	Definition
rootsnoun	Ancestry.
stigmarian	Relating to the fossil roots known as Stigmaria.
rootlingnoun	a plantling just beginning to root.
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.
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.
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.
radicelnoun	(botany) A small branch of a root; a rootlet.
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.]
rooternoun	(US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
root systemnoun	(botany) The structure comprising the roots of a plant.
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.
rootballnoun	The mass of roots and associated soil that comes up with a plant lifted from the soil or from a container.
root wordnoun	A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
rootstalknoun	(botany) Synonym of rhizome.
rootingnoun	A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
rootcapnoun	Alternative form of root cap. [(botany) A cap of cells covering the growing extremity of a root;]
rootrotnoun	Alternative form of root rot. [(phytopathology) Any of several plant fungal diseases caused by having overwet roots.]
bulbnoun	A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
pseudorootnoun	(linguistics) A fake root word.
offsetverb	(transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.