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.
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Rootlet
Synonyms for "rootlet"
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15 translations across 12 languages.
Breton
1 entries- gwriziadenn noun (the smallest roots)
Bulgarian
1 entries- коренче noun (the smallest roots)
Dutch
1 entries- worteltje noun (the smallest roots)
French
1 entries- radicelle noun (the smallest roots)
German
1 entries- Würzelchen noun (the smallest roots)
Māori
2 entries- pīakaaka noun (the smallest roots)
- wekeweke noun (the smallest roots)
Polish
1 entries- korzonek noun (the smallest roots)
Romanian
1 entries- radicelă noun (the smallest roots)
Spanish
1 entries- raicilla noun (the smallest roots)
Thai
1 entries- รากฝอย noun (the smallest roots)
Ukrainian
1 entries- коріне́ць noun (the smallest roots)
Welsh
3 entries- gwreiddigyn noun (the smallest roots)
- gwreiddionyn noun (the smallest roots)
- gwreiddiosyn noun (the smallest roots)
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