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
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A seed does not normally germinate until the rootlet of a suitable plant creeps close to it through the soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I wouldn’t trade a single rootlet for any of it.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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From each of these pits there proceeds, in perfect examples, a long cylindrical rootlet; but in many cases these have altogether disappeared.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne
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