Definitions

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  • noun a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure

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Examples

  • Today, 85 percent of Brazil's 200 million orange trees are grown from limo cravo rootstalk.

    Crisis In The Cupboard 2007

  • Be sure to remove as much of the roots as possible (a dandelion weeder is helpful here), since these weeds can regrow from any pieces of the rootstalk that remain.

    Lead Stories from AOL 2009

  • Too be unappreciatively, the noble apropos or edgeways tannenberg cair with rootstalk, but the substructure with whom cair isotope unassumingness they gibraltarian are maternally stagecraft ethnically as rep.

    Rational Review 2009

  • Be sure to remove as much of the roots as possible (a dandelion weeder is helpful here), since these weeds can regrow from any pieces of the rootstalk that remain.

    Lead Stories from AOL 2009

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