Crossword clues for rootage
WordNet
n. fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
a developed system of roots [syn: root system]
the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, source]
Usage examples of "rootage".
The televised Navy rootage of the rescue attempt among the burning debris had been dramatic, and the startling satellite photo showing the cruise missile in flight only seconds before the Shilo was hit had made the cover of every newspaper and news magazine in the world.
But across the lake the yellow and red of trees in fall leaf showed, and a green line along the shore as if it gave rootage to reeds.