adventitious root

1. 1.

   root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem

   Broaderroot

Questions about adventitious root

What does adventitious root mean?

adventitious root means "root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem".

Is adventitious root a common word?

adventitious root is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.