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ROOTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("rooting" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Derivation:
root (take root and begin to grow)
root (cause to take roots)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb root