No tree can grow in it, for the moment the taproot touches the Black Ram the tree dies.
Some of them had sent down a taproot nearly or quite three inches in length.
Furthermore, without doubt, one of these roots would have grown so as to replace the taproot.
Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high.
Here, in the City of London, was the taproot from which Empire and wealth and so many other fine leaves had sprouted.
By the following autumn, the better seedlings will have ten or twelve inches of top, and two and a half or three feet of taproot.
In normally developed trees of the same age, the taproot would have been three or four feet long.
taproot: the main root of a plant, which runs directly down into the earth to a considerable depth without dividing.
The root of evil, the taproot from which the evils of modern society develop, is the profit idea.
And one of these was respect for authority, the loss of which was the taproot of Bolshevism.
The main root in gymnosperms, eudicotyledons, and magnoliids, usually stouter than the lateral roots and growing straight downward from the stem. The taproot develops from the primary root. The taproot and its lateral roots penetrate deeper into the soil than the fibrous roots characteristic of monocotyledons. Compare fibrous root.