Overview of noun roots

The noun roots has 1 sense

• roots -- (the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; "his roots in Texas go back a long way"; "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has African roots")

Overview of noun root

The noun root has 8 senses

• root -- ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)


• beginning, origin, root, rootage, source -- (the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root")


• root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical -- ((linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem")


• root -- (a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number)


• solution, root -- (the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation)


• ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root -- (someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent))


• etymon, root -- (a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes)


• root, tooth root -- (the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support)

Overview of verb root

The verb root has 6 senses

• root -- (take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly")


• root -- (come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression")


• root -- (plant by the roots)


• rout, root, rootle -- (dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles")


• settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down -- (become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down")


• root -- (cause to take roots)