Word.ws English Dictionary

rootward

rootward adjective: toward the root of a plant.

Adjective

rootward (not comparable)

  1. Toward the root of a plant.

Origin of rootward

From root + -ward.

Questions about rootward

What does rootward mean?
Rootward means toward the root of a plant.
What part of speech is rootward?
Rootward is an adjective.

Words near rootward in the dictionary

  1. rootstalks
  2. rootstock
  3. rootstocks
  4. Rootstown
  5. rootsy
  6. rootward
  7. rootwise
  8. rootwork
  9. rootworker
  10. rootworkers
  11. rootworm

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rootward (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rootward.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rootward. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.