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