roothold

roothold [root-hohld, roo t-] Examples noun

attachment of a plant to soil by means of its roots; support of a plant through the growing and spreading of its roots.

Examples from the Web for roothold Historical Examples of roothold

Gnarled, stunted cedars and gray, twisted cypress clung for a roothold to these barren ledges.

Margaret McCarter

Where the peak leaned to the valley, the trunk of a giant pine jutted forth slantingly from a roothold a little below the summit.

Charles G. D. Roberts