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Webster 1828 Edition


Rooting

ROOT'ING

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ppr.
Striking or taking root; turning up with the snout.

Definition 2024


rooting

rooting

English

Noun

rooting (plural rootings)

  1. Originally, a system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:
      as sone as the sun was uppe it caught heet: and because it had nott rotynge it wyddred awaye.
  2. The process of forming roots.
  3. A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.

Translations

Verb

rooting

  1. present participle of root