English Dictionary

rootstock

名詞

広義

(agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.

日本語の意味

接ぎ木に用いられる台木。果実をつける樹木を支えるために、健康で根の発達が良い植物を基盤として用いるもの。

The orchardist carefully chose a disease-resistant rootstock to support the grafted scion and ensure a bountiful harvest.

果樹園の園主は、接ぎ木された穂木を支え、豊かな収穫を確実にするために、病害に強い台木を慎重に選んだ。

意味（1）

(agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.

意味（2）

(by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.

We know more - vastly more - about how we are governed, and that knowledge is the rootstock of consent.

rootstocks （ plural ）