Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fixed to the earth by roots; firmly fixed, as if by the root; immovable.

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Examples

  • Another reason to buy small plants: They are not yet root-bound in their containers.

    Gardening made easy, and deliciously inexpensive 2011

  • At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Again it took some time to carefully cut the object free of its root-bound nest, and by then it was getting too dark to examine his finds in any detail.

    In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010

  • At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • At the lip of the coulee, someone had spaded the ground with a shovel and replaced the torn divots of grass with a rake, creating a broken pattern that made the farmer think of a root-bound plant in a cracked flowerpot.

    The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

  • Again it took some time to carefully cut the object free of its root-bound nest, and by then it was getting too dark to examine his finds in any detail.

    In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010

  • Here is what I think: Life with Sarah has been far more engaged and far less root-bound than adult life otherwise might have been, and anyone who buys the party line about mother-daughter hell is going to miss some great opportunities for fun and enlightenment.

    Karen Stabiner: Moms and Daughters: A Potent Mix 2008

  • We planted it a bigger pot and it started to grow, and it turns out the plant is actually a tree that refuses, no matter how root-bound, un-watered, or sunlight-deprived it gets, to die.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Happy 2007

  • We planted it a bigger pot and it started to grow, and it turns out the plant is actually a tree that refuses, no matter how root-bound, un-watered, or sunlight-deprived it gets, to die.

    Thoughts on Growing Up Happy 2007

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