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- English Word Root Definition An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
- English Word Root Definition 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.
- English Word Root Definition The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
- English Word Root Definition That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
- English Word Root Definition The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- English Word Root Definition The lowest place, position, or part.
- English Word Root Definition The time which to reckon in making calculations.
- English Word Root Definition To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- English Word Root Definition To be firmly fixed; to be established.
- English Word Root Definition To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
- English Word Root Definition To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
- English Word Rootcap Definition A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
- English Word Rooted Definition of Root
- English Word Rooted Definition Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
- English Word Rooter Definition One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- English Word Rootery Definition A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
- English Word Rooting Definition of Root
- English Word Rootless Definition Destitute of roots.
- English Word Rootlet Definition A radicle; a little root.
- English Word Rootstock Definition A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.