Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rootage"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rootage
n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in
the firm soil of faith"
2: a developed system of roots [syn: {root system}]
3: 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"
[syn: {beginning}, {origin}, {root}, {source}]
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