rootstock
Meaning
The necessary basis for something to develop.
The necessary basis for something to develop.
A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
Examples
We know more - vastly more - about how we are governed, and that knowledge is the rootstock of consent.
Word Forms
rootstocks
Etymology
From root + stock.