HAIRY ROOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hairy root mean? 

• HAIRY ROOT (noun)
  The noun HAIRY ROOT has 1 sense:

1. a phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots

  Familiarity information: HAIRY ROOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIRY ROOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A phase of crown gall (especially in apples) during which there is abnormal development of fine fibrous roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hairy root" is a kind of...):

crown gall (a bacterial disease of plants (especially pome and stone fruits and grapes and roses) which forms excrescences on the stem near the ground)