ROOTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rooting mean? 

• ROOTING (noun)
  The noun ROOTING has 1 sense:

1. the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow

  Familiarity information: ROOTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("rooting" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Derivation:

root (take root and begin to grow)

root (cause to take roots)

 Context examples 

So acute did his hunger become at times that he was not above rooting out wood-mice from their burrows in the ground.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Think of the work you are doing now as a kind of audition for a bigger role later for you finally have the attention of VIPs who are rooting for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And she was so much the woman, clinging and appealing, sunshine and dew to my manhood, rooting it deeper and sending through it the sap of a new strength.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Leaving the thumbless archer and his brood, the wayfarers struck through the scattered huts of Emery Down, and out on to the broad rolling heath covered deep in ferns and in heather, where droves of the half-wild black forest pigs were rooting about amongst the hillocks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)