rootage
Plant's underground network
Rootage is the system of roots belonging to a plant, or the act and process of taking root.
The word extends to figurative anchoring: Her rootage in the community ran deep.
It suggests establishment and foundation—the network of connections that holds something in place.
Descent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- family treeChart of ancestors
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- descentDownward slope or lineage
origin · forebears · ancestors · bloodline · parentage · pedigree · extraction · stock
Underlying support structure
- groundingConnecting to earth
- settlingReaching resolution or rest
- implantationEmbedding into tissue
- embeddingPlacing within surrounding mass
entrenchment · taking hold · permanence · stability · fixture · lodging · planting · settling in
Fastening securely to position
- taprootMain descending root
- absorptionProcess of taking in
- mycorrhizaeFungal-root mutualistic associations
- transplantingMoving living growth elsewhere
seedling · germination · anchorage · subsoil · propagation
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- family treeChart of ancestors
- genealogyStudy of family descent
descent · origin · forebears · ancestors · bloodline · parentage · pedigree · extraction · stock · derivation
foundation
Underlying support structure
- groundingConnecting to earth
- settlingReaching resolution or rest
- implantationEmbedding into tissue
embedding · entrenchment · taking hold · permanence · stability · fixture · lodging · planting · settling in · belonging
anchoring
Fastening securely to position
- taprootMain descending root
- absorptionProcess of taking in
- mycorrhizaeFungal-root mutualistic associations
transplanting · seedling · germination · anchorage · subsoil · propagation
rootagerootlessness
State of having no anchor
uprootedness · displacement · transience · nomadism · wandering
rootagedestination
Intended arrival point
outcome · fruition · culmination · endpoint · future
root, roots, rooted, uproot, rooting, rootless, uprooting, uprooted, uproots