Assertion: seaweed's holdfast | /r/HasProperty | root-like structure
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text: It can grow to a height of 118 feet and consists of a holdfast (a root-like structure that secures the base to the ocean floor) and a single stipe (stalk) topped with a ball full of carbon monoxide, which allows the kelp to float toward the light.
text: A holdfast is a rootlike structure present at the base of the alga.
text: Also, holdfasts are the root-like structures, which anchor the brown algae to the surface.
text: The holdfast, a root-like structure, anchors the kelp to the substrate of the ocean.
text: A holdfast is a root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate.
text: The kelp plant itself is made up of three parts: the blade (the leaf-like structure), the stipe (the stem-like structure) and the holdfast (root-like structure).