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prop root

a root that descends externally from a plant stem into the ground, helping to support the stem, as on a mangrove

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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