Word Image
plural: roots
Part Of Speech
noun, verb
Word Meaning
noun: the leafless usually underground part of a plant that absorbs water and minerals, stores food, and holds the plant in place; the base or end of a bodily part (hair, fingernail, tooth) or the part by which it is attached to the body; an original cause, source; the ancestors of a person or a group of persons; a number that when multiplied by itself a given number of times equals a specified number
verb: to form or enable to form roots; to take root; to remove by or as if by pulling out the roots; to turn up or dig in the soil with the snout; to wish for the success of someone or something
Word Family
rooted
rooter
rooting
rootedness
rootless
rootlessness
rootlike
rootage
rootstalk
rooty
rootiness
roothold
rootworm
Sentences
I like rooting for the underdog in sports events.
There was ample evidence of pigs rooting for fungi all over the area.
The agency was created to root out the spies amongst us.
Elm trees have such shallow roots.
Pull weeds up by the roots so that they don’t grow back.
Coloring your hair blonde will lead to dark roots regrowing.
Pioneers, immigrants, and others have roots that lie deep in California’s past.
We are in the process of rooting out the cause of the problem.
They put down roots in a small farming community.
The number 2 is a fourth root of 16.
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