Sentence examples for massive root from inspiring English sources

He said removal of the vines, which have massive root systems, would be nearly impossible.

The shallow fibrous roots form a massive root system, and the plant is resistant to both drought and waterlogging.

Thanks to her, we learn about a colony of aspens in Utah called Pando: 47,000 trees, genetically identical, connected by a massive root system.

Plants that can most fully exploit a habitat tend to dominate it, and, since trees have evolved trunks that allow them access to the aerial environment and massive root systems that permit them to infiltrate the subterranean environment, they dominate much of the biosphere.

Similarly, the massive root biomass in this study is also an adaptive response to reach more water.

In addition, its massive root system will increase the shear strength of soil (thus providing improved stability of soils on steep slopes).

Their gnarled, twisted trunks and massive roots give them a primeval look, like something out of a Tolkien epic.

Its massive roots popped out of the ground here and there to make sporadic benches on which the Pawong sat facing me.

The genetically modified rice has less massive roots than the control rice does.

They bring these massive roots in from the jungle, lay them on a huge stone and pound them.

This elm had been planted in the seventeen-hundreds, by Colonel Roger Morris, probably, to stand along the Boston Post Road; now the tree's massive base and root structure coexist with the sidewalk, the wall of an apartment building, and the Eighth Avenue subway, just below.