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rootlets

rootlets is the plural of rootlet.

Meaning of rootlet

Noun

rootlet (plural rootlets)

  1. One of the smallest roots, hair roots.
    • She can almost hear them pushing up through the soil, their rootlets sniffing for nutrients and crowding the rootlets of their neighbours, their leaves releasing clouds of airborne chemicals.2013, Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam, Bloomsbury, page 208

Questions about rootlets

What is rootlets the plural of?
Rootlets is the plural of rootlet.

Words near rootlets in the dictionary

  1. rootless cosmopolitans
  2. rootlessly
  3. rootlessness
  4. rootlessnesses
  5. rootlet
  6. rootlets
  7. rootlike
  8. rootling
  9. rootlings
  10. rootogram
  11. rootograms

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