Crossword-Solution: ROOTSTOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rootstock | n. | A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ROOTSTOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plant grafting component | 1 answer |
| Type of stem. | 1 answer |
| especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots | 1 answer |
| root or part of a root used for plant propagation | 1 answer |
| Source; origin. | 2 answers |
| rhizome | 6 answers |
| Ginger | 34 answers |
| Source | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ROOTSTOCK (5)
The rootstock of this plant once established in a spot, it can be extirpated only with the greatest difficulty.
For this reason the species is called acaulescent, indicating that it has no other stem than the subterranean rootstock.
Hence the conclusion that the common ancestors were perennial plants with a rootstock bearing their flowers in umbels or whorls on scapes.
One might represent the germ-plasm by the metaphor of a long, creeping rootstock from which plants arise at intervals, these latter representing the individuals of successive generations.
From a many-jointed, thick rootstock a single graceful curved stem arises each spring, withers after fruiting, and leaves a round scar, whose outlines suggested to the fanciful man who named the genus the seal of Israel's wise king.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2010).