rootlet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of the smallest roots, hair roots.
    — She can almost hear them pushing up through the soil, their rootlets sniffing for nutrients and crowding the rootlets of their neighbours, their leaves releasing clouds of airborne chemicals.

词形变化

rootlets plural

词源

Etymology tree
English root
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English rootlet
From root + -let.
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