Esp. of a plant: having no roots; without roots.

Full of roots; consisting of roots; relating to or suggestive of roots.

Having many roots or strong roots (literal and figurative); deeply entrenched, established, or fixed.

Having a root or roots (in various senses); esp. (of a cutting or other propagule) having been made to grow roots.

Of a plant, stem, cutting, etc.: taking root; growing roots.

Esp. of a stem or fern frond: producing (adventitious) roots or rootlets; rooting.

Of the nature of a rhizome; having or characterized by the possession of a rhizome; of or relating to a rhizome or rhizomes.

(of a rose, fruit tree, etc.) growing from its own root, rather than grafted or budded (see on its (also their) own roots at root, n.1 phrases 3).

= rhizogenic adj.

of, relating to, or promoting the formation of roots; root-producing.