Rootlet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 99 anagrams from letters in rootlet (eloortt).
First recorded in 1785-95; root1 + -let
It sent downward a rootlet to get soil and water, and upward it shot a stem to which the first pair of leaves was attached.
At last it lit upon a rootlet of the tree quite over her shoulder.
The structure of the root is best studied in the seedling plant, or in a rootlet of an older one.
Every growing shoot of a great tree is continually describing small ellipses; the tip of every rootlet endeavours to do the same.
Every rootlet lends itself to steady the growing giant, as if in anticipation of fierce conflict with the elements.
At last it lit upon a rootlet of the tree, quite over her shoulder.
It contained a piece of stick, but this may be merely the remains of a rootlet many of which had penetrated into the grave.
But how is material conveyed from rootlet to veinlet of leaf hundreds of feet away?
The obstruction of granite rocks, cannot force the rootlet upward, nor drive the leaflet down.
No structure in plants appears more wonderful, as Darwin describes it, than the tip of the rootlet of a seedling.