Definition of "rooty" [root•y]

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

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• "(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."