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Definition of Root system
1. Noun. A developed system of roots.
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Literary usage of Root system
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1. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"ROOT-SYSTEM. The root-system of the guayule consists, in a plant derived from a
seedling, of a strong tap-root extending to a considerable but undetermined ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Ill THE ROOT-SYSTEM The seedling possesses in most cases at first only a simple
... Later a root-system develops which is formed either exclusively from the ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1896)
"Gallery made by larvae in nursery tree; я) point at which stock was budded, just
above the surface: b> the down burrow, turning just above root system and ..."
4. The Broad-sclerophyll Vegetation of California: An Ecological Study of the by William Skinner Cooper (1922)
"root system. Somewhat scanty evidence indicates that the root systems of the
chaparral shrubs, ... Its root system was decidedly of the dual type. ..."
5. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"The Importance of the Root-system. The differentiation into root and shoot is
accompanied by a marked division of labour. Thus in terrestrial plants the ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... while beneath the soil a widely-branching root-system covers an area of
corresponding extent. Between these two extremes is every conceivable gradation, ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"A few appear upon the plant during its growth in summer, but the greatest
development of the root-system is during and after ..."
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