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Rootstock

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
  2. 2
    root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots wordnet
  3. 3
    The necessary basis for something to develop. broadly, figuratively

    "We know more - vastly more - about how we are governed, and that knowledge is the rootstock of consent."

  4. 4
    a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure wordnet

Etymology

From root + stock.

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