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A radicle; a little root.

the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

o ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. "Creeping vines." Dryden.

A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper. Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the f…

The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids. Goodale.

hread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

-- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown.

The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.

Having numerous roots, or rootlets.

A small branch of a root; a rootlet.

A rootlet; a radicel.

Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.

the squash. -- Primary root (Bot.), the central, first-formed, main root, from which the rootlets are given off. -- Root and branch, every part; wholly; completely; as, to destroy an error root and branch. -- Root-and-branch men, radical reformers; -- a designation applied to the English Independents (1641). See Cit…

A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.