Definition of root

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Root (n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical..

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Coralwort :: Coralwort (n.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root..
Tous-les-mois :: Tous-les-mois (n.) A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year..
Rest-harrow :: Rest-harrow (n.) A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots..
Radiculose :: Radiculose (a.) Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets..
Metaplast :: Metaplast (n.) A word having more than one form of the root.
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..
Rubian :: Rubian (n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.
Hare''s-foot Fern :: Hare's-foot fern () A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name..
Rooting :: Rooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roo.
Rutty :: Rutty (a.) Rooty.
Fascicular :: Fascicular (a.) Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root..
Polyrhizous :: Polyrhizous (a.) Having numerous roots, or rootlets..
Funiliform :: Funiliform (a.) Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees..
Root :: Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed..
Period :: Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..
Wroot :: Wroot () imp. of Write. Wrote.
Shrub :: Shrub (n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root..
Pinedrops :: Pinedrops (n.) A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees..
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..
Dudgeon :: Dudgeon (n.) The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made..
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