Definition of root

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Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away..

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Irrational :: Irrational (a.) Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd..
Garlic :: Garlic (n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable..
Bitterroot :: Bitterroot (n.) A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum..
Eradication :: Eradication (n.) The state of being plucked up by the roots.
Licorice :: Licorice (n.) The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and for medicinal purposes..
Are :: Are () The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as..
Sprout :: Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch..
Fang :: Fang (v. t.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth..
Haustorium :: Haustorium (n.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
Rattoon :: Rattoon (v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting..
Radicate :: Radicate (v. i.) To take root; to become rooted.
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia)..
Rhizanthous :: Rhizanthous (a.) Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root..
Inracinate :: Inracinate (v. t.) To enroot or implant.
Tormentil :: Tormentil (n.) A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea..
Inseparable :: Inseparable (a.) Invariably attached to some word, stem, or root; as, the inseparable particle un-..
Multicipital :: Multicipital (a.) Having many heads or many stems from one crown or root.
Root :: Root (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop..
Displant :: Displant (v. t.) To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants..
Dock :: Dock (n.) A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination..
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