Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full or consisting of roots.
- adjective Suggestive of or resembling roots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in roots; containing many roots: as, rooty ground.
- Rank, as grass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of roots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
roots .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Soundbite of applause) SAGAL: I don't suppose you've ever gone to IHOP and ordered a rooty tooty fresh and fruity.
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(Soundbite of applause) SAGAL: I don't suppose you've ever gone to IHOP and ordered a rooty tooty fresh and fruity.
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Blending green, rooty vetiver and languid exotic flowers fagraea, tiare, ylang-ylang, the perfumer achieved a striking yang-yin, darkness-light sort of contrast of earthy, practically dirty and creamy-floral notes.
Archive 2009-01-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know.
Tom Ford Champaca Absolute: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009
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Blending green, rooty vetiver and languid exotic flowers fagraea, tiare, ylang-ylang, the perfumer achieved a striking yang-yin, darkness-light sort of contrast of earthy, practically dirty and creamy-floral notes.
LesNez Manoumalia: Perfume Review No. 2 Marina Geigert 2009
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Iris and violet, the floral notes that have a pronounced rooty aspect, continue the earthy theme in the heart of Amyitis.
Archive 2009-01-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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After the iris-like rooty floralcy goes away, and it goes away fast, one is left with very appealing woody greenness, evocative of a smell of freshly snapped young twig.
Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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Likewise, the authors highlight that final species richness was decreased when high-species-count functional groups were removed, and that shoot: root ratios were higher when rooty L. perrene was excluded.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Insightful Analysis: Wardle’s Field Patches 2007
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What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know.
Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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After the iris-like rooty floralcy goes away, and it goes away fast, one is left with very appealing woody greenness, evocative of a smell of freshly snapped young twig.
Hilde Soliani Il Vs Iris: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009
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