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rootstalks

rootstalks is the plural of rootstalk.

Meaning of rootstalk

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
    Synonyms:
    rhizome

Questions about rootstalks

What is rootstalks the plural of?
Rootstalks is the plural of rootstalk.

Words near rootstalks in the dictionary

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

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