She hardly seemed to understand this, but answered- "The seedling or rootlet would be just like the original plant, if we did not from the first control its growth by means of our electric frames.
"Across the Zodiac"
Percy Greg
Then, instead of creeping over it, as the roots of other trees would have done, the soft tip of the rootlet actually united with the substance of the root at the point of contact, the fibres of the two becoming interlaced, and their united surfaces gradually becoming covered with a common bark.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse
The acorn got wet and burst, and clung to the ground with his crooked rootlet, and sent up a sprout.
"Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales"
Leo Tolstoy