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Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.

A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.

A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, as the crocodile.

Prodicing roots.

One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

A rootlike appendage.

Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.

A rootstock. See Rootstock.

Feeding on roots; root-eating.

Bearing roots.

The arrangement of the roots of plants.

The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine. Monk's rhubarb. (Bot.) See under Monk. -- Turkey rhubarb (Med.), the roots of Rheum Emodi.

To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

Roseroot.

A root. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find. (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.

A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.