heart-root
/ˈhɑːtruːt/(also heart's root)
noun
1The source of a person's most profound emotions; the bottom of the heart. Also in plural in same sense. Compare heart, root. Now poetic and rare.
2A large, obliquely descending tree root, as contrasted with a vertical taproot or a horizontal root. Frequently attributive, especially in heart-root system.
Origin
Middle English; earliest use found in Trinity Cambridge Manuscript. From heart + root. In some forms probably originally reflecting a genitive compound with unmarked first element. In some forms from the genitive of heart + root.
- put to the sword
- put to the torch (or put a torch to)
- puttu
- put two and two together
- putty
- putty blower
- putty head
- putty-headed
- putty-hearted
- putty knife
- putty medal
- putty-root
- putty work
- putu
- Putumayo River
- put up
- put-up-able-with
- put up a fight
- putu pap
- putupap
- put up or shut up
- put-uppable-with
- put-up price
- put up the shutters
- put up with