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Underground protection
Answer for the clue "Underground protection ", 7 letters:
rootcap
Word definitions for rootcap in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mass of parenchymatous cells that covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rootcap \Root"cap`\ (r[=oo]t"k[a^]p`), n. (Bot.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
Usage examples of rootcap.
Their tips had previously been cut off, in a direction as accurately transverse as could be done, to different lengths, measured from the apex of the rootcap, and which will be specified in each case.
As soon as the tip, protected by the rootcap, reaches the ground, it penetrates the surface, if this be soft or friable.