rootage

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noun

1. fixedness by or as if by roots
- strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith
• Hypernyms:
stationariness, immobility, fixedness
2. a developed system of roots
• Syn:
root system
• Hypernyms:
system, scheme
• Part Meronyms:
root
3. the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
- Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
- Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
- communism's Russian root
• Syn:
beginning, origin, root, source
• Derivationally related forms:
root, root (for: root), originate (for: origin)
• Hypernyms:
point
• Hyponyms:
derivation, spring, fountainhead, headspring, head,
headwater, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace,
cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience, home, point source,
trail head, trailhead