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Definition of "rooty" [root•y]

  • Full or consisting of roots: a rooty patch of soil. (adjective)
  • Suggestive of or resembling roots. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "rooty" in a sentence
  • "(Soundbite of applause) SAGAL: I don't suppose you've ever gone to IHOP and ordered a rooty tooty fresh and fruity."
  • "What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know."
  • "After the iris-like rooty floralcy goes away, and it goes away fast, one is left with very appealing woody greenness, evocative of a smell of freshly snapped young twig."
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