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Adjective: rootbound
  1. (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots
    - potbound
     
  2. Having the roots matted or densely tangled
    "shaggy untended lawns of old trees and rootbound scented flowers and shrubs"

See also: planted, tangled