Originally: an edible root, as a carrot or parsnip. Later gen.: the root of a tree or plant; the fibrous roots of a tap root, etc. Also: tree…

The part of a plant or tree, normally underground, which attaches it to the ground (or other supporting medium) and conveys water and nutrients…

The main root of a plant.

A firm hold or attachment by means of roots. Formerly also: †a root; roots collectively (obsolete). Now chiefly figurative.

Botany. The root of a plant (now rare). Also in the names of pharmaceutical preparations of the roots of plants, with (usually postmodifying)…

A plant stem or root; the trunk of a young tree.

A straight root, of circular section, thick at the top, and tapering to a point, growing directly downwards from the stem and forming the centre…

= taproot, n.

Botany. Of the nature of a tuber; chiefly in tuberous root, (a) a tuber, or an underground stem bearing tubers (see tuber, n.2 1); (b) more…

Botany. The taproot of a tree. Obsolete.

Horticulture. A tapering lower stem in a plant. Cf. pivot, v. 4. Obsolete.

A stem-like root. Also spill-root. Obsolete.

An object having the shape of a slender tapering cylinder, as an icicle; esp. a taproot.

tutty men n. also tuttimen plural at Hungerford, tithingmen who collect contributions on Hock Tuesday, carrying a tutty-pole n. wreathed with…

Botany. A specialized type of aerial root having numerous lenticels and air spaces (aerenchyma), thought to promote aeration of the roots of…

a root that develops from the stem of a plant, esp. on a lily from just above the top of the bulb.

Botany. A large, obliquely descending tree root, as contrasted with a vertical taproot or a horizontal root. Frequently attributive, esp. in heart-…