Usually means: Supportive roots extending from trunk.
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  1. buttress root: Merriam-Webster
  2. buttress root: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buttress root: Collins English Dictionary
  4. buttress-root: Wiktionary
  5. Buttress root: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Buttress root)

noun:  Buttress roots, also known as plank roots, are large, wide roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree.


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