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HAIRY ROOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hairy root" is a kind of...):
crown gall (a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground)