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roothold
[ root-hohld, root- ]
noun
- attachment of a plant to soil by means of its roots; support of a plant through the growing and spreading of its roots.
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Of course, newly acquired Ferns will pay for extra attention in the way of watering until they have secured a proper roothold.
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Where the peak leaned to the valley, the trunk of a giant pine jutted forth slantingly from a roothold a little below the summit.
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Gnarled, stunted cedars and gray, twisted cypress clung for a roothold to these barren ledges.
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At one end of the cleft, from a rocky and shallow roothold, a gnarled birch grew slantingly.
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