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rootstalk

rootstalk noun: synonym of rhizome.

Noun

rootstalk (plural rootstalks)

  1. Synonym of rhizome.
    • All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.1868, George Bacon Wood, A Treatise on Therapeutics, and Pharmacology, Or Materia Medica, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 432
    • For Theophrastus insists that the scion's relation to the rootstalk is not essentially different from that of any other plant's relation to the earth. The rootstalk simply provides nourishment, just as the earth does, while the formation and growth of the scion are both due to the power of the...2016, James Wilberding, Forms, Souls, and Embryos, Routledge, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    rhizome

Synonyms of rootstalk

Forms of rootstalk

pluralrootstalks

Origin of rootstalk

From root + stalk.

Questions about rootstalk

What does rootstalk mean?
Rootstalk means synonym of rhizome.
What part of speech is rootstalk?
Rootstalk is a noun.
What is the plural of rootstalk?
The plural of rootstalk is rootstalks.

Words near rootstalk in the dictionary

  1. roots-reggae
  2. roots-rock
  3. rootsier
  4. rootsiest
  5. rootsiness
  6. rootstalk
  7. rootstalks
  8. rootstock
  9. rootstocks
  10. Rootstown
  11. rootsy

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