Usually means: Plant roots confined by container.
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  3. rootbound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. rootbound: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rootbound)

▸ adjective:  (of a potted plant) Having outgrown its pot, so that the roots are cramped and tangled.

Similar:
potbound, tangled, planted, hidebound, rooty, rutty, ivied, barkbound, sickly, bitterroot, more...

Opposite:
unrooted, free-rooted, loose-rooted

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Similar:
potbound, tangled, planted, hidebound, rooty, rutty, ivied, barkbound, sickly, bitterroot, more...

Opposite:
unrooted, free-rooted, loose-rooted



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