Small outgrowths, on many plants

Usage examples of rootlets.

Garric had cleared the ivy from the outside of the eight-foot wall and removed the bricks which the prying rootlets had loosened over a generation or more.

With that he tried to cut the rootlets, but they were tough, and he ended up cutting more cloth than root.

Without his regular clothing on, it would be his flesh the rootlets found, and they might like it all too well.

Somehow or other, the rootlets, which are its tentacles, find out that there is a brook at a moderate distance from the trunk of the tree, and they make for it with all their might.

She washed off the tuber in the lake, scrubbing away the silt, the fine white rootlets, the papery outer skin.

Dirt rained on his head from rootlets stirred as he pulled himself out where he could see.

One was simply a tree, whose gnarled roots and branches filled up the space above and below, curling and recurling until Paks could not tell how many little rootlets filled even one small section.

The rootlets actually started reaching through their fingers and pushed hungrily into the earth.