roothold
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She’ll also be tracking whether invasive plants are able to gain a roothold and how environmental factors such as water and sun exposure influence the vegetation community.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023
Moisture left in the soils as the reservoir drained appears to have aided the restoration, creating a brief window for water-loving plants to get a roothold.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023
And once they gain a roothold outside Africa, fire often follows.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2022
Of them all, Sandburg, the immigrant's son, got the surest roothold in authentic U. S. tradition, and got it perhaps by the near accident of digging for the truth about Abraham Lincoln.
From Time Magazine Archive
We soon passed the thrifty timber and aided our ascent of the craggy sides of the mountain by clinging to the shrubs that found roothold in the crevices of the rocks.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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