Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having a tap-root.
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Examples
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She pivoted on her legs, which were tap-rooted, and her gown was yellow with black stripes.
Pierre Grassou 2007
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She pivoted on her legs, which were tap-rooted, and her gown was yellow with black stripes.
Pierre Grassou 2007
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Useful hand tool digs out tap-rooted weeds such as dandelions without leaving a big hole.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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Useful hand tool digs out tap-rooted weeds such as dandelions without leaving a big hole.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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Useful hand tool digs out tap-rooted weeds such as dandelions without leaving a big hole.
How To Buy & Sell just about Everything Jeff Wuorio 2003
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Perhaps the chief reason for this failure is the marked and pronounced tendency of most tap-rooted plants to produce little or no fibrous, branched roots in lieu of the long, straight, and seldom branched tap roots.
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The chief difficulty encountered in transplanting several nut tree and other commonly tap-rooted seedlings is thought to be due to the lack of
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The few tap-rooted seedlings growing in vermiculite medium showed some laterals and were less strongly tap-rooted than those in soil or sand.
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D. Virginia 16 0 20 0 0 14 showed the least tendency to produce tap-rooted seedlings.
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Preliminary work carried on during the past two years has shown that with certain nut trees and other tap-rooted plants, it is possible to induce fibrous roots by growing such seedlings in vermiculite.
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