Crossword-Solution: ROOTLETS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROOTLETS | anagram | TOOTLERS |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ROOTLETS”
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| Ivy anchors | 1 answer |
| Ivy supporters | 1 answer |
| Small outgrowths | 1 answer |
| Small plant outgrowths | 1 answer |
| Small underground branches | 1 answer |
| Tiny tubers | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ROOTLETS (5)
Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, a‰rial rootlets, a‰rial plants.
Driven to watch her to find if there were any soft spot where I could fasten the rootlets of affection, I came to see her as she was,--a tall, spare woman, given to cards, egotistical and insolent, like all the Listomeres, who count insolence as part of their dowry.
The walls, though built of the smooth, slaty stone which abounds in that region, showed many rifts and chinks where ivy had fastened its rootlets.
The spring--the insignificant cause of this vast disruption--gurgled, flashed, and sparkled at the base; the limpid baby fingers that had laid bare the foundations of that fallen column played with the still clinging rootlets, laved the fractured and twisted limbs, and, widening, filled with sleeping water the graves from which they had been torn.
Its branches shoot to heaven and sink to earth,[FN#30] Even as the deeds of men, which take their birth From qualities: its silver sprays and blooms, And all the eager verdure of its girth, Leap to quick life at kiss of sun and air, As men's lives quicken to the temptings fair Of wooing sense: its hanging rootlets seek The soil beneath, helping to hold it there, As actions wrought amid this world of men Bind them by ever-tightening bonds again.
Quotes with ROOTLETS (2)
[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially political ones) and of hearing other people exchange theirs. It's all very well, she reflected, when the ideas have had time to flower, or at least to bud, so that we can pick them judiciously, present them with a bow, and watch them unfold in the warmth of each other's understanding: but there is far too much nowadays of pulling up the wretched little things just to see how they are…
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1984–2017).