Definition of roots

"roots" in the noun sense

1. 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

"his roots in Texas go back a long way"

"he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"

"his music has African roots"

2. 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. 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. root

a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number

5. solution, root

the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

6. ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

7. etymon, root

a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

8. root

the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair

"roots" in the verb sense

1. root

take root and begin to grow

"this plant roots quickly"

2. root

come into existence, originate

"The problem roots in her depression"

3. root

cheer for

"She roots for the Broncos"

4. root

plant by the roots

5. rout, root, rootle

dig with the snout

"the pig was rooting for truffles"

6. 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"

7. root

cause to take roots

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Quotations for roots

True praise roots and spreads. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Strait trees have crooked roots. [ Proverb ]

But should you lure
From his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots
Of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook,
Behooves you then to ply your finest art. [ Thomson ]

Whose roots earth's centre touch, whose heads the skies. [ Walter Harte ]

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude - roots that can be pulled up. [ George Eliot ]

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished. [ Herder ]

Then kissed me hard, as if he plucked up kisses by the roots, that grew upon my lips. [ William Shakespeare ]

Religion is a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits. [ Amiel ]

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so. [ Carlyle ]

Great acts grow out of great occasions, and great occasions spring from great principles, working changes in society and tearing it up by the roots. [ Hazlitt ]

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. [ Barrow ]

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its bead proudly above its neighbor plants - forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. [ Bovee ]

Mountains never shake hands.
Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots. [ Hawthorne ]

Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. [ Hare ]

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory. [ Evelyn ]

Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light. [ Bacon ]

roots in Scrabble®

The word roots is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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roots in Words With Friends™

The word roots is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words within the letters of roots

2 letter words in roots (4 words)

3 letter words in roots (4 words)

4 letter words in roots (5 words)

5 letter words in roots (Anagrams) (3 words)

roots + 1 blank (7 words)

Word Growth involving roots

Shorter words in roots

root

Longer words containing roots

alumroots

arrowroots

balsamroots

beetroots

birthroots

breadroots

brierroots

clubroots

colicroots

disroots

fingerroots

gingerroots

grassroots

irisroots

nerveroots

pokeroots

redroots

reroots

rootstalk rootstalks

rootstock rootstocks

snakeroots

squawroots

taproots

uproots