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/ɹuːt/ · noun
The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction..
This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.
A root caught Ulot's left foot and he almost fell.
[...] two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough.
Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Use root when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Root means The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction..
Common synonyms include fang, basis, origin, source.
Possible antonyms include crest, pole.
This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
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