Definitions for rootlets

rootlets root·let

Spelling: [root-lit, roo t-]
IPA: /ˈrut lɪt, ˈrʊt-/

Rootlets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in rootlets (eloorstt).

Definitions for rootlets

noun

  1. a little root.
  2. a small or fine branch of a root.
  3. one of the adventitious roots by which ivy or the like clings to rocks or other supports.

Origin of rootlets

First recorded in 1785-95; root1 + -let

Examples for rootlets

At last it lit upon a rootlet of the tree quite over her shoulder.

No structure in plants appears more wonderful, as Darwin describes it, than the tip of the rootlet of a seedling.

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.

But how is material conveyed from rootlet to veinlet of leaf hundreds of feet away?

It contained a piece of stick, but this may be merely the remains of a rootlet many of which had penetrated into the grave.

At last it lit upon a rootlet of the tree, quite over her shoulder.

The obstruction of granite rocks, cannot force the rootlet upward, nor drive the leaflet down.

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.

The structure of the root is best studied in the seedling plant, or in a rootlet of an older one.

Word Value for rootlets
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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