rootlet
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A radicle; a little root.
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Ciliary rootlet The ciliary rootlet is a cytoskeleton-like structure that originates from the basal body at the proximal end of a cilium.
Each stereocilium inserts as a rootlet into a dense filamentous actin mesh known as the cuticular plate.
Memory of leaping or crawling or shrugging rootlet by rootlet forward, across the flatness of everything.”