Usually means: Base plant used for grafting.
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  1. rootstock: Merriam-Webster
  2. rootstock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rootstock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rootstock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rootstock: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rootstock, rootstock: Wordnik
  7. rootstock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rootstock: Wiktionary
  9. rootstock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rootstock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rootstock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rootstock: Dictionary.com
  13. Rootstock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Rootstock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rootstock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. rootstock: Rhymezone
  17. Rootstock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rootstock: FreeDictionary.org
  19. rootstock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. rootstock: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rootstock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. rootstock: Medical dictionary

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  1. rootstock: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rootstock)

noun:  (agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.

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