The phrase "tentative roots" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing preliminary or uncertain origins or foundations of something.
Example: "The researchers identified tentative roots of the cultural practices in ancient texts."
Alternatives: "preliminary origins" or "uncertain foundations."
More fundamentally, there are concerns that Mr. Thaksin, who grew rich as a telecommunications baron under the old system of patronage politics, will begin to undercut the democratic reforms that have taken tentative root under Mr. Chuan's three-year administration.
Her work shows Syrians planting roots, however tentative.
Past screening of rubber rootstocks in southern Thailand has revealed five clones that showed good plant growth with tentative tolerance to white root disease.
DT = singleton, TC = tentative consensus, Drought stressed root = DR1, Drought stressed shoot = DS1, Field stressed shoot = FSS, Floral meristem = TFM, Heat stressed shoot = HSS, Greenhouse grown leaf = LF1, Greenhouse grown root = RT1, Field grown stem = ST1, Young seedling = SD1.
– Initialization: Root the tree at some internal node and provide tentative initial values for the root distribution π and the substitution matrices S i (i = 1, …, e ), and a threshold ε > 0.
It was found that the seedlings of clone 5 exhibited significantly higher root growth with tentative high shoot growth compared with the remaining treatments.
Mrs. Clinton could announce smaller steps, like returning an ambassador or putting American support behind international financial aid to help the tentative economic reforms here take root.
And Karofsky's break his first true apology for bullying Kurt, and his first tentative step toward admitting the root cause of his anger had me reaching for the Kleenex.
A typical tincture would contain one or more of the following plants: mat root (Aristolochia rugosa), cat's claw (Pithocellobium unguis-cati), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), snake bush (Barleria lupulina), obie seed (Cola nitida), and wild gri gri root (Acrocomia ierensis, tentative ID).
