Things with the gnarled, rooty shape of treetrunks supported the roof at irregular intervals.

The last of Dr. Boots's List, the brown, rooty man, glanced back at her as she hurried to catch him.

'Mountain biking in British Columbia' mountain biking originated in the steep, wet, rocky, rooty terrain of Vancouver, Canada's north shore, thus it was coined "north shore" riding.

There are old oaks and pines, there are birches like skinny ghosts, there are red maples - all of them indigenous to the area - but he also sees twisted, rooty growths that look like mutated banyan trees.