Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fixed to the earth by roots; firmly fixed, as if by the root; immovable.
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Examples
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Another reason to buy small plants: They are not yet root-bound in their containers.
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At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Again it took some time to carefully cut the object free of its root-bound nest, and by then it was getting too dark to examine his finds in any detail.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Again it took some time to carefully cut the object free of its root-bound nest, and by then it was getting too dark to examine his finds in any detail.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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Here is what I think: Life with Sarah has been far more engaged and far less root-bound than adult life otherwise might have been, and anyone who buys the party line about mother-daughter hell is going to miss some great opportunities for fun and enlightenment.
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We planted it a bigger pot and it started to grow, and it turns out the plant is actually a tree that refuses, no matter how root-bound, un-watered, or sunlight-deprived it gets, to die.
Archive 2007-09-01 Happy 2007
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We planted it a bigger pot and it started to grow, and it turns out the plant is actually a tree that refuses, no matter how root-bound, un-watered, or sunlight-deprived it gets, to die.
Thoughts on Growing Up Happy 2007
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