rootage

root·age  (rtj, rtj)

n.

1. A system or growth of roots.

2. Establishment by or as if by roots.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rootage - fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith" fixedness, immobility, stationariness - remaining in place
	2.	rootage - a developed system of roots           root system 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" root - (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
	3.	rootage - 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" origin, source, root, beginning derivation - the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues); "he prefers shoes of Italian derivation"; "music of Turkish derivation" spring - a point at which water issues forth headspring, fountainhead, head - the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream" headwater - the source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile" wellhead, wellspring - the source of water for a well jumping-off place, point of departure - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco" place of origin, provenance, provenience, birthplace, cradle - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" home - place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" point source - a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted trail head, trailhead - the beginning of a trail point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"