root system

1. The configuration of a plant's various roots.

2. See more at fibrous root taproot

Example Sentences

By the following spring, the first wildflowers had sprung up, and the native plants were digging deep root systems.

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I could go on, but it suffices to say that “The Osbournes” sits near the root system of celebreality’s Tree of Life, for richer or poorer.

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Sheean's account of the 1920s illustrates the conflict's deep root system in the land that Israelis and Palestinians both want and have not found a way, or a will, to share or separate.

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He told the BBC it was essential that they are well watered "to encourage a deep root system".

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When the flames are intense enough to destroy root systems, they also change the soil structure.

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