Crossword-Solution: ROOTLET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rootlet | n. | A radicle; a little root. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROOTLET | anagram | LORETTO, OTTERLO, TOOTLER |
We have 21 clues for the answer “ROOTLET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Rhizoid | 1 answer |
| Underground water carrier | 1 answer |
| Underground offshoot | 1 answer |
| Underground branch | 1 answer |
| Tiny plant part | 1 answer |
| Small underground water carrier | 1 answer |
| Small underground part of a plant | 1 answer |
| Small plant-part | 1 answer |
| Small plant support | 1 answer |
| Small plant fiber | 1 answer |
| Small division of a plant | 1 answer |
| Radicel | 1 answer |
| Plant's tiny anchor | 1 answer |
| Little water carrier | 1 answer |
| Ivy tendril | 1 answer |
| Ivy offshoot | 1 answer |
| Ivy attacher | 1 answer |
| Cousin of a tendril | 1 answer |
| RADICLE | 2 answers |
| Tree part | 14 answers |
| Plant part | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ROOTLET (5)
How it began by being molten fire underground, how then it became part of a hard cold rock, lifted up into a cliff, beaten upon by rain and storm, and washed down into the soil of the plain, till, perhaps, the little atom of mineral met with the rootlet of some great tree, and was taken up into its sap in spring, through tiny veins, and hardened the next year into a piece of solid wood.
These threads proceeded from the bark of the rootlet at one end, and at the other end were firmly attached to particles of silex or mortar from the wall.
For the tiniest and most reluctant rootlet seemed to respond to his caressing paternal touch; it was a pretty sight to see his huge fingers tying up some slender stalk to its stick with the smallest thread, and he had a reverent way of laying a bulb or seed in the ground, and then gently shaping and smoothing a small mound over it, which made the little inscription on the stick above more like an affecting epitaph than ever.
The ledge was hung between night and the snows on one hand, and the dizzy depths of the world upon the other; was furnished with just soil enough for a gentian to struggle skywards and open its stiff azure stars; and offered no lodgement, no hope of salvation, to any rootlet which should stray beyond its inexorable limits.
There is a mournfulness in seeing the pointed fruit of the mangrove drop down through the still air into the slime beneath, with the rootlet already formed of that which never fails to become a tree.
Quotes with ROOTLET (2)
There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things…
No risk is more terrifying than that taken by the first root. A lucky root will eventually find water, but its first job is to anchor -- to anchor an embryo and forever end its mobile phase, however passive that mobility was. Once the first root is extended, the plant will never again enjoy any hope (however feeble) of relocating to a place less cold, less dry, less dangerous. Indeed, it will face frost, drought, and greedy jaws without any possibility of flight. The tiny roo…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1973–2015).