rootstock

American  

[root-stok, root-] / ˈrutˌstɒk, ˈrʊt- /

noun

1. Horticulture. a root and its associated growth buds, used as a stock in plant propagation.

2. Botany. a rhizome.

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rootstock British  

/ ˈruːtˌstɒk /

noun

1. another name for rhizome

2. another name for stock

3. biology a basic structure from which offshoots have developed

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rootstock Scientific  

/ ro̅o̅t′stŏk′,rt′- /

1. See rhizome

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Etymology

Origin of rootstock

First recorded in 1930–35; root ¹ + stock

Example Sentences

Winzeler and Wenk grafted more than 500 scions of rootstock at the start of the season, of which two-thirds took.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

As a result, these old vines of monastrell, or mourvèdre as it’s known in French, did not have to be grafted onto American rootstock, which resists phylloxera.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2019

On a few grafted trees where the scion had failed, the rootstock had produced suckers that then bloomed.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2018

Efforts to plant the great wines of Europe – known as Vitis vinifera or classic grapes – failed because their rootstock couldn’t withstand attacks from pests like phylloxera, which thrive in wet climates.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2018

Otherwise as Tussilago.—Perennial woolly herbs, with the leaves all from the rootstock, white-woolly beneath, the scape with sheathing scaly bracts, bearing heads of purplish or whitish fragrant flowers, in a corymb.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa