Rootlet
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
- 2 small root or division of a root wordnet
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From root + -let.