transferred. A natural string or cord. In plants: A cord, thread, or fibre; a ‘vein’ of a leaf; the tough piece connecting the two halves of a pod…

In etymological sense (after French filet): A thread or string. In plants: A fibre of the root; a rib or vein of a leaf; the pistil or stamen of a…

A rootlet, a fibre of a root.

A main branch or ramification of the root of a tree or plant; a subsidiary root.

A subdivision of a root, a small root or rootlet; occasionally of a twig.

The pointed tapering part of anything which is embedded in something else. A prong of a divided root. Obs.

Botany. The ultimate subdivision of a root.

= rootlet, n. 1a.

(in a plant) a root branching off from a larger root.

A slender subsidiary root; a branch of the primary root of a plant. Also: any of the small lateral roots produced for support by ivy and certain…

Botany. A rootlet; a fine or fibrous root (cf. radicel, n.); (in later use) esp. a root or rhizoid of a moss.

A fine or fibrous root; a secondary or adventitious root, a rootlet.

A fibre or rootlet.

A branching rootlet; a ramification, a sprawl.

transf. A similar strip of other material, as a tough pliant plant-stem, etc.; spec. a root or root-cutting of horse-radish or sea-kale.