Synonyms:
root
Meaning: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
Synonyms:
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source
Meaning: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
Synonyms:
root, root_word, base, stem, theme, radical
Meaning: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
Synonyms:
root
Meaning: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
Synonyms:
solution, root
Meaning: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
root
Meaning: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"
Usage examples
Money is the root of much friendship.
'He hath not root in himself.'--Our Lord.
That's what's at the root of me, Alyosha; that's my creed.
But, ma'am, a fatal mistake was at the root of my reckoning.
Our Lord knew this man quite well who had no root in himself.
This truth does not take root at once in the minds of the rich.
There nature had placed her, and she had taken root and grown mightily.
Considered from this point of view man is the branch; nature is the root.
It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.
Two-year-old plants come up with thick clumps of matted root that is now useless.
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