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 root·age /ˈrutɪʤ, ˈrʊ-/
 生根,根,開始

 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]