rootstock

1. 1.

   a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure

   Synonymsrhizomerootstalk

   Broaderstalk
2. 2.

   root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots

   Broaderstock

Other forms of rootstock

plural

rootstocks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rootstock

What does rootstock mean?

rootstock means "a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rootstock?

rootstock has 2 syllables: root-stock. The stress falls on "root".

What is another word for rootstock?

Close synonyms include rhizome, rootstalk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rootstock a common word?

rootstock 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.