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rootage   (TTS Sound)

The noun rootage has 3 senses

• rootage -- (fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith")


• rootage, root system -- (a developed system of roots)


• beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (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")