rootstock

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and rootstock

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while rootstock is (agriculture) a healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion.

As a noun rootstock

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

As an adjective rhizanthous is

(botany) producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.

As nouns the difference between rootstock and veratralbine

is that rootstock is a healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion while veratralbine is a yellowish amorphous alkaloid, C₂₈H₄₃NO₅, extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.

Understock is a synonym of rootstock.

As nouns the difference between rootstock and understock

is that rootstock is a healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion while understock is the rootstock onto which the scion is grafted.

As a verb understock is

to stock with an insufficient amount.

As nouns the difference between rootstock and goldenseal

is that rootstock is (agriculture) a healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion while goldenseal is , a perennial herb of the buttercup family, native to southeastern canada and the northeastern united states, with a thick, yellow knotted rootstock and diverse medicinal properties.

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.

As nouns the difference between graft and rootstock

is that graft is a small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit while rootstock is a healthy plant that is used as the base for grafting a scion.

As a verb graft

is to insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.