rootlet
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- noun
- /ˈruːtˌlɛt/
- Specialized
:
raicilla
- The gardener noticed that the plant had developed several rootlets in the rich soil.
Examples
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In Indonesia, the rootlets are chewed with betel nut and the juice swallowed as a remedy for coughs and asthma.
Academic text (2002) -
Some of the filaments project as a rootlet into the cuticular plate region along the apical surface of the outer hair cell body.
Academic text (1998) -
A zone of undifferentiated cells forms where the rootlet and soil merge, and then the acid releases the aluminum in the soil, and that means the tree is doomed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Moreover, changes in the axoneme, basal bodies, and ciliary rootlets are associated with dyskinesia and mucostasis.
Academic text (1999) -
Caterpillars and beetle larvae forage about the roots of plants, grazing on the fine rootlets.
Academic text (1993) -
Pedicularis is a root parasite, forming thin rootlets that attach to nearly any plant on the prairie by way of special organs called haustoria.
Academic text (1996) -
The backwash from the wheel climbed up the myriad rootlets of the cypress trees and ebbed back out again, rising and falling like miniature tides.
Fiction book (1992) -
The instructor distinguishes the regions of the spinal cord by color: cauda equina, blue; conus medullaris, yellow; dorsal rootlets, orange.
Fiction book (1997) -
In every crack or corner where a bit of dirt had drifted, seeds arrived, rootlets thrust forth, stalks lifted, and within a year, masonry was breaking apart into finer and finer fragments.
Fiction book (1992) -
Young seedlings often produce tiny rootlets that help them absorb nutrients from the ground.
Synonyms
A small root-like part of a nerve that branches from the main nerve
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Etymology
Rootlet comes from the simple word root plus the small ending -let, the same ending you see in booklet or piglet. So a rootlet is a 'little root', a tiny branch that helps the plant take up water and hold the plant in the soil.