All related terms of 'roots'

The roots of a plant are the parts of it that grow under the ground.

The grass roots of an organization or movement are the ordinary people who form the main part of it, rather than its leaders .

reggae , esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized

If someone puts down roots , they make a place their home , for example by taking part in activities there or by making a lot of friends there.

to tear or dig up by the roots

the ordinary people who form the main part of an organization or movement, rather than its leaders

The cube root of a number is another number that makes the first number when it is multiplied by itself twice . For example , the cube root of 8 is 2.

the edible root of a fern

a Eurasian crassulaceous mountain plant, Sedum rosea , with fleshy pink-tipped leaves, a thick fleshy pinkish underground stem, and a cluster of yellow flowers

(of a horse) to jump from all four legs

a root that grows from and supports the stem above the ground in plants such as mangroves

If you are rooting for someone, you are giving them your support while they are doing something difficult or trying to defeat another person.

If you root out a person, you find them and force them from the place they are in, usually in order to punish them.

a Eurasian crassulaceous mountain plant, Sedum rosea , with fleshy pink-tipped leaves, a thick fleshy pinkish underground stem, and a cluster of yellow flowers

a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord ( dorsal root or sensory root ) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front ( ventral root or motor root ) conveys impulses to the muscles

a large prop root

a root that grows from the stem of a plant, above ground or above water

a tall North American scrophulariaceous plant, Veronicastrum virginicum, having spikes of small white or purple flowers

any of several low shrubby eucalyptus trees that flourish in desert regions of Australia

the rootstock ( rhizome ) of a mallee tree, often used as fuel

If you root around or root about in something, you look for something there, moving things around as you search .

The square root of a number is another number which produces the first number when it is multiplied by itself. For example , the square root of 16 is 4.

a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests

a perennial Mediterranean leguminous shrub, Glycyrrhiza glabra, having spikes of pale blue flowers and flat red-brown pods

the root of the butterfly weed , formerly used as a cure for pleurisy

a scalar for which there exists a nonzero vector such that the scalar times the vector equals the value of the vector under a given linear transformation on a vector space

the edible root of a fern

a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens ), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers