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Rootstock vs Cespitose - What's the difference?

rootstock | cespitose |

As a noun rootstock

is (agriculture) a healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion.

As an adjective cespitose is

(botany) having the form of a piece of turf, ie many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.

rootstock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (agriculture) A healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion
  • (by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop
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    • , passage=We know more - vastly more - about how we are governed, and that knowledge is the rootstock of consent. }}

    See also

    * (wikipedia "rootstock")

    cespitose

    English

    Alternative forms

    * caespitose

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany) Having the form of a piece of turf, i.e. many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
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