What is "rootlet"

Usage examples of "rootlet".

Tiny tendrils like rootlets radiated from the diameter in what Taz guessed was a Fibonacci sequence.

Nut trees form new rootlets slowly the first summer and require special care.

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.

Using test bores taken at random on the top surface and by direct observation from diggers, we found that they link up, not to a central brain, but to a flat layer of similar rootlets lying just above the subsurface.

The soil had been lightly turned and composted around each one in a circle that would just contain the branches, about where the rootlets would reach.

Where they are in contact, tiny nodules form and send absorption cells into the grass rootlets.

She was almost invisible behind the froth of carrot tops, rootlets and lemon branches.

Quickly he excised a clear space all around and above it, severing in the process more than twenty of the rootlets and two thicker tubes which were the connections to secondaries.