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n.
That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
a.
Destitute of roots.
n.
The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
a.
Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
a.
Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t.
To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
n.
A radicle; a little root.
v. t.
To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
n.
The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
n.
That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
n.
One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
n.
A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
n.
An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
v. i.
To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
v. t.
To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
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