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Root system   /rut sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Root system

noun
1.
A developed system of roots.  Synonym: rootage.






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"Root system" Quotes from Famous Books



... plough; if you plant grain, you plough and harrow; while, if you cultivate trees, you mulch their roots by breaking the earth with a mattock, more or less according to the nature of the tree, for some trees, like the cypress, have a small, and others like the plane tree have a large, root system (for example, that in the Lyceum at Athens described by Theophastus, which, when it was still a young tree, had a spread of roots to the extent of 33 cubits). If you break the ground with a plough and ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato

... rapidly produce swellings which vary in size and number in accordance with resistance of the species. Technically, the first swelling on the young tender rootlets of the vine is called a nodosity. The presence of a few nodosities on the root system does not indicate that a vine is not a valuable resistant stock. When the nodosity begins to decay and becomes of a cancerous nature, it is called a tuberosity. These tuberosities decay more or less rapidly and deeply, and when they rot deeply cause enfeeblement or death to ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick



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