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rootstock

[ root-stok, roo t- ]

/ ˈrutˌstɒk, ˈrʊt- /

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noun

Horticulture. a root and its associated growth buds, used as a stock in plant propagation.

Botany. a rhizome.

Origin of rootstock

First recorded in 1930–35; root¹ + stock

Words nearby rootstock

roots, roots blower, roots music, rootserver, rootstalk, rootstock, rootworm, rooty, ropable, rope, rope dancer

Example sentences from the Web for rootstock

Rootstock of Solomon's Seal, with the bottom of the stalk of the season, and the bud for the next year's growth.

The Elements of Botany |Asa Gray
Ferns are propagated by the growth and budding of the rootstock as well as by the ordinary method of reproduction.

How to Know the Ferns |Frances Theodora Parsons
After the rootstock has been kept for some time it will become greenish yellow or brown internally and its quality impaired.

Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants |A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
Some of the scars are depressed below the surface of the rootstock, while others are raised above it.

Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants |A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

In front a common herbaceous Fern (Polypodium vulgare) with its creeping stem or rootstock.

The Elements of Botany |Asa Gray

British Dictionary definitions for rootstock

rootstock

/ (ˈruːtˌstɒk) /

noun

another name for rhizome

another name for stock (def. 7)

biology a basic structure from which offshoots have developed

Scientific definitions for rootstock

rootstock

[ rōōt′stŏk′, rut′- ]

See rhizome.