The dog rootched through the pile of leaves until it unearthed the buried bone.

Despite the sleet, she kept rootching through the old garden bed to find the buried bulbs.

The landscaper carefully placed the heavy rootballs into the trench to ensure the trees would establish quickly.

During the lab session, we examined the rootcaps of several seedlings under the microscope.

The rootcap, a mass of parenchymatous cells that covers and protects the growing cells at the tip of a root, cushions the root as it pushes through the soil.

The cuttings are rootable if kept moist and warm.

The once-vibrant fern looked rootbound after years in the same small pot.