It grew wedged in a fork of the trees, its roots dangling in the air to trap what nourishment they could from the mists.

Dead trees lay on the shore like stiffened corpses, shriveled roots dangling in the air.

During the flood season they float well above the sandy river bed with roots dangling free in the water.

A high wooded bank, with exposed roots dangling from the underside where a swift current had once undercut, beckoned from the other side of the vacated channel.

One of the most striking tests took place in 1995 in a small pond within sight of the Chernobyl nuclear power plants in Ukraine, where sunflowers were grown on Styrofoam rafts with their roots dangling in the water.

Some plants even lived in the high foliage entirely, with their roots dangling in the air below.

Neelix was hurrying to their side, a long reddish root dangling from one hand.

Tenoctris caught a root dangling beneath the bluff's overhang and drew herself up.

The central woman grasping the branch of a tree is an ancient Indian symbol of fertility, but the cordlike roots dangling below her body seem to cripple rather than sustain her.