Rootlet

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    small root or division of a root wordnet

Example

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"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.

Related phrases

hair root

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