A tree root whose upper, exposed parts project from the trunk like a buttress.
Example sentencesExamples
Instead, rain forest trees are often supported by thick buttress roots.
There are endemic white-flowering begonias which reach several metres tall, trees with buttress roots the size of a small house and countless stands of bamboo towering over the path like crashing tsunami.
Country Energy wants to put underground cables along the street and the buttress roots would be severely damaged.
An hour later, they were deep in the rain forest of Corcovado National Park, hiking along a trail flanked by giant ferns and shaded by 70-metre-tall trees anchored to the thin soil with buttress roots.
When I find Matt, he's standing beside a buttress root taller than he is.
Definition of buttress root in US English:
buttress root
noun
A tree root whose upper, exposed parts project from the trunk like a buttress.
Example sentencesExamples
When I find Matt, he's standing beside a buttress root taller than he is.
An hour later, they were deep in the rain forest of Corcovado National Park, hiking along a trail flanked by giant ferns and shaded by 70-metre-tall trees anchored to the thin soil with buttress roots.
Country Energy wants to put underground cables along the street and the buttress roots would be severely damaged.
There are endemic white-flowering begonias which reach several metres tall, trees with buttress roots the size of a small house and countless stands of bamboo towering over the path like crashing tsunami.
Instead, rain forest trees are often supported by thick buttress roots.