Rootage

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rootage
       n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in
            the firm soil of faith"
       2: a developed system of roots [syn: {root system}]
       3: 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"
          [syn: {beginning}, {origin}, {root}, {source}]