Definition of Roothold

1. Noun. Attachment by means of roots. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Roothold

1. the embedding of a plant to soil through the growing of roots [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roothold

rootcaps
rooted
rooted(p)
rootedly
rootedness
rootednesses
rooter
rooter skunk
rooteries
rooters
rootery
rootest
rooteth
roothair
roothairs
roothold (current term)
rootholds
rootier
rooties
rootiest
rootiness
rootinesses
rooting
rooting reflex
rootings
rootkit
rootkits
rootkitted
rootkitting
rootle

Literary usage of Roothold

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1866)
"When planted early in September they get good roothold, and being earthed up and taken a little care of, they stand ordinary winters with impunity ..."

2. The Creed of Buddha by Edmond Holmes (1908)
"Belief in its own reality is the very root of the soul's life: to prove or attempt to prove its reality is to undermine and otherwise weaken its roothold; ..."

3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1878)
"All the Celery that is fresh pricked-out must be shaded and watered until it get good roothold. If it is required very early, put single plants into some ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... at the same time there is roothold for the lichen which (like the curtains of black cobwebs) veils and gives mystery to the colour. ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Then the plants will have attained sufficient size and roothold to enable them to pass the winter. It is advisable to cover the plants, just before winter ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"... onion scales for months, but, so long as the scales were unbroken, could gain no roothold. Now thousands of them had pushed out little threads, which, ..."

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