Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

root hair

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: root hair
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.

Inflected Forms

root hairs (plural) roothair (alternative)

Questions

What does root hair mean?: The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.

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