rootage meaning and definition

ROOTAGE noun

Definition of rootage (noun)

1. fixedness by or as if by roots
   • "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
2. a developed system of roots
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: beginning, origin, root, source