Defn: A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.
Every growing shoot of a great tree is continually describing small ellipses; the tip of every rootlet endeavours to do the same.
The tip of the rootlet is thus enabled to penetrate the ground, and it is proved to be more sensitive than the most delicate tendril.
No structure in plants appears more wonderful, as Darwin describes it, than the tip of the rootlet of a seedling.
It is impressed by and transmits influences of pressure, injury, moisture, light, and gravity to other parts, and determines the course pursued by the rootlet in penetrating the ground.
He saw a tree, sending down its roots into the ground, spreading everywhere, each tiny rootlet constructed for the purpose of absorbing water.
Sixty years afterwards look again, and every rootlet has grown a tree, each again sending rootlets down; and so the system spreads.
Every hanging rootlet of the great banyan tree is hung with horrors--all dead, most mercifully, but horrible still.
And then the tender leaf, looking up to the sky, and the slender rootlet penetrating the soil, begin to draw their sustenance from the vast stores of nature.
The obstruction of granite rocks, cannot force the rootlet upward, nor drive the leaflet down.
The rootlet could more easily grow upward than downward, because of the looser earth, and of the exciting influences of light and moisture.
And it will perhaps grieve you when you know that your own words, your own action, gave me back this sickness of the soul-- this old disease which had still some living rootlet left in me when I thought myself well and safe at last.
Will you tell me, Mary, that there is not one living rootlet left?
And still there may be a living rootlet left in the soil, which will sprout and renew the dead tree in time.
If you have canned goods, save every tin can when empty, melt off the top, and with nail and hammer puncture a hole on two opposite sides near the top, and fasten in a rootlet handle.
In this case it is not easy to lap the edges, simply bring them together and finish the seam with the addition of the slender rootlet binding.
He binds wet clay and moss on the branch to make the rootlet sprout.
A slender rootlet may sometimes be seen hanging from the crown of a palm.
After the first rootlet has broken through the ends of the sheath, it is followed by others.
It sent downward a rootletto get soil and water, and upward it shot a stem to which the first pair of leaves was attached.
And so in our hearts, as it were, the downward rootlet is self-despair, and the upward shoot is faith in Christ.
The seed, planted in the ground, sends a little rootlet down, and a little spikelet up, by the same vital act.
Heterodora javanica passes into the cortex of sugar-cane roots through fissures, and makes its way to the place where a young rootlet is about to emerge; here it sticks its beak into the growing-point and remains fixed.
After a time he dug another cell near another rootlet deeper in the ground; but he never exerted himself more than was necessary to obtain the little food that he needed.
This he finally found a short distance below the surface of the ground, in the shape of a juicy rootlet of the great tree above.
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