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1. (n.) rootage
the act of taking root.
2. rootage
a root system or firm fixture by means of roots.
Etymology: (1580–90)
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1. (noun) rootage
fixedness by or as if by roots
"strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
2. (noun) rootage, root system
a developed system of roots
3. (noun) beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
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"
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