roothold

/root-hohld, root-/US // ˈrutˌhoʊld, ˈrʊt- //

洛克特,洛克菲勒,洛克特公司,洛克特伍德

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : attachment of a plant to soil by means of its roots; support of a plant through the growing and spreading of its roots.

Of course, newly acquired Ferns will pay for extra attention in the way of watering until they have secured a proper roothold.
Where the peak leaned to the valley, the trunk of a giant pine jutted forth slantingly from a roothold a little below the summit.
Gnarled, stunted cedars and gray, twisted cypress clung for a roothold to these barren ledges.
At one end of the cleft, from a rocky and shallow roothold, a gnarled birch grew slantingly.