Sentence examples for ROOTS from high-quality English sources.

• In higher vertebrates the two roots unite…

• Better soil, roots, and plant nutrition create a picture of lawn health – both above and below ground!

• Roots can tell whether nearby roots are self or other and, if other, kin or stranger.

• Generally, all swamp trees lack deep-growing roots.

• A number of other specialized roots exist among vascular plants.

• Abnormal root growth is revealed by comparison with healthy roots.

• Spinal nerves are sensorimotor nerves with dorsal and ventral roots.

• When the soil is saturated with water, oxygen is unavailable to plant roots.

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• Grasses (Poaceae) and many other monocotyledons produce fibrous root systems with the development of adventitious roots.

• These secondary roots further produce their own smaller lateral roots (tertiary roots).

• Some roots, called adventitious roots, arise from an organ other than the root—usually a stem, sometimes a leaf.

• In lower fishes there is still alternation of dorsal and ventral roots, but the roots unite in a single spinal nerve.

• Adventitious roots, when modified for aerial support, are called prop roots, as in corn or some figs (Ficus; Moraceae).

• The result is several large, positively geotropic roots that produce higher-order roots, which may also grow to the same size.

• Nematodes are attracted to host roots by sensing either the heat given off by roots or the chemicals secreted by roots.

• Most roots penetrate the ground, but, in some palms, adventitious roots may form a mound above ground or appear at intervals along the stem.

ROOTS sentence examples

• This network of roots does not arise as branches of the primary root but consists of many branching roots that emerge from the base of the stem.

• In roots, the first cork cambium appears in the outermost layer of the vascular tissue system, called the pericycle (see below Plant organs: Roots).

• In plants in which the taproot persists, smaller lateral roots (secondary roots) commonly arise from the taproot and may in turn produce even smaller lateral roots (tertiary roots).

• Respiratory or knee roots (pneumatophores) are characteristic of many species; they project above the mud and have small openings (lenticels) through which air enters, passing through the soft spongy tissue to the roots beneath the mud.