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Rootstalk

🔄 Synonyms of "Rootstalk"

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Word	Definition
rhizomenoun	(botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
rootstocknoun	(agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Rootstalk"

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Word	Definition
rhizomenoun	(botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
rootstocknoun	(agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
rhizomanoun	Alternative form of rhizome. [(botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.]
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.
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.
stemnoun	The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
root systemnoun	(botany) The structure comprising the roots of a plant.
rhizocaulnoun	The rootstock of a polyp.
rhizogenesisnoun	(botany) The production and development of roots or rhizomes
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.]
rhizogennoun	(obsolete, botany) One of a former proposed class of flowering plants growing on the roots of other plants and lacking green foliage.
pseudorootnoun	(linguistics) A fake root word.
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.
rhizologynoun	(botany) The study of plant roots.
rhizinanoun	Alternative form of rhizine. [(botany, lichenology) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid]
stolonnoun	(botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
radicelnoun	(botany) A small branch of a root; a rootlet.
microrhizomenoun	(botany) A microscopic rhizome
rootballnoun	The mass of roots and associated soil that comes up with a plant lifted from the soil or from a container.
hydrorhizanoun	(zoology) The rootstock or decumbent stem by which a hydroid is attached to other objects