rootstock
Noun
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.
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The necessary basis for something to develop.
Usage- broadly
- Figurative
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We know more - vastly more - about how we are governed, and that knowledge is the rootstock of consent.
Noun
a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
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rootstocks