Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the arrangement or disposition of roots. Compare phyllotaxis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The arrangement of the roots of plants.

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  • noun botany The arrangement of the roots of plants.

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "root arrangement".

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  • root arrangements?????

    February 14, 2009