rootlet

English

Etymology

From root +‎ -let.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rootlet (plural rootlets)

1. One of the smallest roots, hair roots.
   • 2013, Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam, Bloomsbury, page 208:

     She can almost hear them pushing up through the soil, their rootlets sniffing for nutrients and crowding the rootlets of their neighbours, their leaves releasing clouds of airborne chemicals.

Related terms

• rootling

Translations

the smallest roots

• Breton: gwriziadenn f
• Bulgarian: коренче n (korenče)
• Dutch: worteltje (nl) n
• French: radicelle (fr) f
• German: Würzelchen n
• Māori: wekeweke, pīakaaka
• Polish: korzonek m
• Romanian: radicelă (ro) f
• Spanish: raicilla
• Thai: รากฝอย (th) (râak-fɔ̌i)
• Ukrainian: коріне́ць (korinécʹ)
• Welsh: gwreiddigyn m, gwreiddiosyn m, gwreiddionyn m

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