rootstock

noun

Etymology

From root + stock.

  1. inherited from *stukkaz
  2. inherited from *stokk
  3. inherited from stocc
  4. inherited from stok
  5. compounded as rootstock — “root + stock

Definitions

  1. A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound…

    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.

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rootstock. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rootstock. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at rootstock

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA