How to pronounce“root”in English
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Definitions of “root”
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 root vegetable.
“[...] 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.”
To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
“The cuttings are starting to root.”
To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
“We rooted some cuttings last summer.”
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