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Arrowroot :: Arrowroot (n.) A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows..

Elecampane :: Elecampane (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.

Root :: Root (v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine..

Wroot :: Wroot () imp. of Write. Wrote.

Rootless :: Rootless (a.) Destitute of roots.

Rootcap :: Rootcap (n.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.

Disrooted :: Disrooted (imp. & p. p.) of Disroo.

Servile :: Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.

Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made..

Spud :: Spud (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes..

Radical :: Radical (a.) Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower..

Saline :: Saline (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.

Turf :: Turf (n.) That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod..

Snakeweed :: Snakeweed (n.) The Virginia snakeroot. See Snakeroot.

Perennial :: Perennial (a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant..

Hermodactyl :: Hermodactyl (n.) A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic..

Cespitose :: Cespitose (a.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots..

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..

Turpeth :: Turpeth (n.) The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth..

Enroot :: Enroot (v. t.) To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep.

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