rootage

Noun rootage has 3 senses

• rootage(n = noun.state) - fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
is a kind of fixedness, immobility, stationariness

• rootage(n = noun.plant) root system - a developed system of roots;
is a kind of scheme, system
has parts: root

• rootage(n = noun.location) beginning, origin, root, source - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
has particulars: derivation, spring, fountainhead, head, headspring, headwater, wellhead, wellspring, jumping-off place, point of departure, birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience, home, point source, trail head, trailhead
is a kind of point
Derived form verb root₂