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† top-root
obs. var. of tap-root; hence † top-rooted a., = tap-rooted.
1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xxxvii. 283 Edward the sixth came in like a storm that tore up Episcopacy by the Roots, yet a Top-Root remained intire with the stock. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. vi. §9 (1681) 105 Leave as much of the Root on as you can, abating only the top-Root, or downright Roots. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 278 The top-rooted plants, that is, such as push one principal root perpendicularly downwards. |