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rootlet

NOUN
  1. small root or division of a root

How To Use rootlet In A Sentence

  • The absence of root hairs on ‘stigmarian rootlets’ is also consistent with their origin from leaves.
  • Germinating immediately, the seed sends out ‘rootlets’ to tap into the host tree's water supply.
  • It may be propagated by taking the slips nearest the earth, which will often be found to have a few rootlets, but if not they will still prove the more suitable; if taken in summer and dibbled into sand, they will make good roots in a week or two, when they may be transplanted to their permanent quarters, so as to become established before winter. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
  • The species probably occupied rather dry, shrub-covered grasslands as suggested by the range of living wild asses and also by the frequency of rootlet impressions on the surfaces of many of the fossil bones.
  • The rootlet then drills into the branch and spreads its developing roots under the bark and into the living tissue.
  • Below the cervical enlargement, the dorsal rootlets, roots and ganglia diminish rapidly in size.
  • The Posterior Root (radix posterior; dorsal root) is larger than the anterior owing to the greater size and number of its rootlets; these are attached along the posterolateral furrow of the medulla spinalis and unite to form two bundles which join the spinal ganglion. IX. Neurology. 6. The Spinal Nerves
  • Longitudinal sections of the embryonic root showed that the structures that protect the rootlet, i.e. the root-cap and coleorhiza, were strongly labelled.
  • The barley was first allowed to germinate, or sprout rootlets, in a moist environment.
  • The mold that grows off the surface of these cheeses gives off real small microscopic rootlets called mycelium that actually grow into the cheese and give off enzymes that the mold can feed off of," Lehner says. Chicago Reader
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