1. (noun)root (botany) the usually undergroundorgan that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
2. (noun)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"
3. (noun)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"
4. (noun)root a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a givennumber
12. (verb)rout, root, rootle dig with the snout "the pig was rooting for truffles"
13. (verb)settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down become settled or established and stable in one's residence or lifestyle "He finally settled down"
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