You are using a development system of the emerging eLTER Research Infrastructure (RI). Please note that this service is still under construction and may not yet be fully functional.

Preferred term

root

Definition

[Henderson's] n. (1) descending portion of plant, ﬁxing it in soil, and absorbing water and minerals, and having a characteristic arrangement of vascular tissues; (2) radix q.v.; (5) pedicle of vertebra; (6) efferent and afferent ﬁbres of a spinal nerve, leaving or entering the spinal cord.

Broader concept

part of organism

Note

[controlled by ] U Grandin, 2013-08-22

Scope note

US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Finnish

Juuri

French

Racine

German

Wurzel

Italian

Radice

Norwegian

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20579

Download this concept

RDF/XML
TURTLE
JSON-LD

Created 3/31/16, last modified 12/18/18

Sidebar listing: list and traverse vocabulary contents by a criterion