buttress root
1Buttress root — Buttress roots are large roots on all sides of a tall or shallowly rooted tree. Typically they are found in rainforests where soils are poor so roots don t go deep. They prevent the tree from falling over (hence the name buttress) and help gather …
2buttress-root — buttˈress root noun A root, often growing from the trunk, that helps to keep a tree upright • • • Main Entry: ↑buttress …
3buttress root — /ˈbʌtrəs rut/ (say butruhs rooht) noun a flattened, plank like expansion formed from root and trunk of certain often shallow rooted trees, especially of the rain forest …
4buttress root — noun : an adventitious root serving as an added support to a tree (as in the banyan and ceiba) compare knee …
5Buttress — This article is about an architectural structure. For the large tree root, see Buttress root. For slang, see buttocks. A buttress is an architectural structure built against (a counterfort) or projecting from a wall which serves to support or… …
6buttress — early 14c., from O.Fr. botrez flying buttress, lit. buttressed, pl. of boteret support, from bouter to thrust against, of Frankish origin (Cf. O.N. bauta to strike, beat ), from P.Gmc. *butan, from PIE root *bhau to strike (see BUTT (Cf …
7plank buttress — noun Etymology: plank (I) : buttress root …
8plank root — noun : buttress root …
9Glossary of botanical terms — Many of the terms used in Wikipedia glossaries (often most) are already defined and explained within Wikipedia itself. However, lists like the following indicate where new articles need to be written and are also useful for looking up and… …
10Bombax buonopozense — taxobox name = Gold Coast Bombax image caption = Greenhouse grown specimen in Münster, Germany status = LR/lc status ref = cite journal| last = Beentje| first = Henk|coauthor=Sara Smith| title = Plant Systematics and Phytogeography for the… …
