rootage

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rootage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  rootage
      n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in
           the firm soil of faith"
      2: a developed system of roots [syn: rootage, root system]
      3: the place where something begins, where it springs into
         being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter
         was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source
         of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn:
         beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]