rootstock
Example Sentences
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The team tested how much 'torture' pistachio and walnut rootstock can withstand by placing them under drought stress.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2022
Winzeler and Wenk grafted more than 500 scions of rootstock at the start of the season, of which two-thirds took.
From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021
As a result, these old vines of monastrell, or mourvèdre as it’s known in French, did not have to be grafted onto American rootstock, which resists phylloxera.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2019
On a few grafted trees where the scion had failed, the rootstock had produced suckers that then bloomed.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2018
It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
