NOUN
- a root that grows from and supports the stem above the ground in plants such as mangroves
How To Use prop root In A Sentence
- Tour guide Rob Parenti kept us interested and entertained as the tour boat chugged along through a tangle of red mangroves, with their arching prop roots, and poisonous manchineels, with their shiny, pointed leaves.
- Between 1150 and 2500, the trees are leafy with a canopy between 25 and 35 m tall and the undergrowth has arborescent ferns and palms, many plants with prop roots and abundant vascular epiphytes and woody lianas. Santa Marta montane forests
