Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rootage

3 senses of rootage

Sense 1
rootage -- (fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith")
       => stationariness, immobility, fixedness -- (remaining in place)

Sense 2
rootage, root system -- (a developed system of roots)
       => system, scheme -- (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going")

Sense 3
beginning, origin, root, rootage, 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")
       => point -- (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street")