rootstock

English

Etymology

From root +‎ stock.

Noun

rootstock (plural rootstocks)

2. (agriculture) 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.

   Synonym: rootstalk

3. (figurative, by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.
   • 2009 January 30, Simon Jenkins, “For real secrets we already have the one-and-a-half-year memoir rule”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     We know more - vastly more - about how we are governed, and that knowledge is the rootstock of consent.

Translations

a healthy plant used as the base for grafting

• Finnish: perusrunko (fi)
• Galician: bacelo (gl) m
• German: Wurzelstock (de) m
• Hungarian: oltóalany sg
• Irish: bonnstoc m
• Italian: portainnesto (it) m
• Latin: stirps f
• Manx: bun-sthock
• Polish: podkładka (pl) f
• Portuguese: porta-enxerto (pt) m, cavalo (pt)
• Romanian: portaltoi (ro) n
• Spanish: pie (es) m (de injerto), cepa (es) f
• Tagalog: ugatsuloy

basis to develop

• Portuguese: fundamento (pt), alicerce (pt)
• Spanish: cimiento (es) m, fundamento (es) m, base (es) f

Further reading

• rootstock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia