rootage

[roo-tij, root-ij]

noun

the act of taking root.

a root system or firm fixture by means of roots.

Origin:
1580–90; root¹ + -age

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rootage
noun
1.	fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
2.	a developed system of roots
3.	the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning]

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