Sentence example with the word 'rootstock'

rootstock

Definition n. a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure

Last update: July 14, 2015


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2) (P. vulgare) is widely diffused in the British Isles, where it is found on walls, banks, trees, &c.; the creeping, densely-scaly rootstock bears deeply pinnately cut fronds, the fertile ones bearing on the back.   [Please select]

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A thick, short rootstock provided with buds, like the potato, is called a _tuber_.   [Please select]

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The ideas of Mani spread eastward and westward with great rapidity, and they were a most fruitful rootstock of heresies throughout the entire Christian world for nearly a thousand years.   [Please select]

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