Definition of root

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Root (v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth..

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Rhizogan :: Rhizogan (a.) Prodicing roots.
Rout :: Rout (v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine..
Setterwort :: Setterwort (n.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots..
Radical :: Radical (n.) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon..
Beet :: Beet (n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar..
Licorice :: Licorice (n.) The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and for medicinal purposes..
Birthroot :: Birthroot (n.) An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties..
Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage..
Pileorhiza :: Pileorhiza (n.) A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
Rubiacin :: Rubiacin (n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid..
Campagnol :: Campagnol (n.) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds..
Bulb :: Bulb (n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid..
Elecampane :: Elecampane (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.
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..
Cutting :: Cutting (n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut..
Evulsion :: Evulsion (n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.
Radicated :: Radicated (a.) Roote.
Radix :: Radix (n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon..
Bed :: Bed (v. t.) To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk..
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