rootless
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Rootless, looking to bloom and so earn the admiration of her former adviser Prof. Joan Kallas, Nell steals the lab’s poisonous seeds and plants them in her own apartment in outer Red Hook, Brooklyn.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2020
Rootless sod or the largely discredited tray system used at Giants Stadium for the World Cup and for several subsequent N.F.L. and M.L.S. seasons?
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2011
He also runs his own website, Rootless Cosmopolitan.
From Salon • Aug. 24, 2010
Rootless, destitute and pregnant, my mother chose life and for that I am eternally grateful.
From Washington Post
Rootless; leaves cleft ¼–½ their length, the lobes ovate, subequal, acute or obtuse, entire, or gemmiparous ones subdentate; involucral leaves trifid; perianth oval-oblong or subcylindric.—On rocks in high mountain regions, and northward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
