noun
Etymology
Origin of rootlet
Example Sentences
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I believe it was the last, deepest rootlet of my denial, expelled.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
It suits Tryon to imagine a great green heart beating slowly beneath the earth, with every rootlet and capillary in the village pulsing to it.
From Time Magazine Archive
A seed does not normally germinate until the rootlet of a suitable plant creeps close to it through the soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wouldn’t trade a single rootlet for any of it.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
Every hanging rootlet of the great banyan tree is hung with horrors—all dead, most mercifully, but horrible still.
From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Amy Carmichael
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