underroot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The underground root portion of a plant, or a single underground root.
noun
An underlying root or basis
Example Sentences
- "Capillary saturated soil layers in relation to water expenditure are to be divided into three parts: 1) the part above the roots, 2) sucking part-active root part and 3) underroot part."
- "In the ores of Fayzabad region (Central Tajikistan) the crystals of fluorite are only of octohedrial habitus types and it proves that the crystals here represent underroot parts ( according to the scheme of changing the forms of crystals)."
- "The underroot tendril! We are at fault for giving the invader a path to Lady Brianna."
- "It is a rain forest and mucky underroot place where hard land is scarce."
- "His own bloodveins stretched for the riverroots which...; all held silent communion; all were part of; all tapped the latent elements of seed and death undertree, underroot."
- "I already hinted at the problem of sea eutrophication (where excess nutrients cause algae to flourish) due to the phosphates that used to be added to washing powder, and, surely, it is not pleasant for plants to find underfoot (or, better, "underroot") those surfactants we use daily at home (please, never pour your dishwater on the roots of a magnificent camellia, even if it is blooming in the garden of a next-door neighbor you cannot stand)."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: underwroten