the underground part of a flowering plant that anchors and supports it and absorbs and stores food
a fleshy and edible root, bulb, or tuber, e.g. a carrot or turnip
the end of a nerve nearest the brain and spinal cord
the part of a tooth, hair, the tongue, etc by which it is attached to the body
something that is an underlying cause or basis, e.g. of a condition or quality
archaic in e.g. the Authorized Version of the Bible, an ancestor or progenitor
the essential core, the heart
(in pl) a feeling of belonging established through close familiarity or family ties with a particular place
roots in Scotland
in grammar, the base element from which a word is derived
in music, the tone from the overtones of which a chord is composed; the lowest note of a chord in normal position
a number which produces a given number when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times
a number which produces a given number when taken an indicated number of times as a factor
Two is the fourth root of 16
a number that satisfies an equation to an identity when it is substituted for the variable
Aus, NZ, coarse slang an act of sexual intercourse
said of a plant: to become rooted
to become fixed or established