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ROOTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage
Example:
his music has African roots
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("roots" is a kind of...):
condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb root
Context examples:
All the component parts of a plant that appear above the roots.
(Plant, Aerial Part, Food and Drug Administration)
Chandos will be glad to his very heart-roots when he sees you.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, you are not examined in Greek roots in polite society, which is lucky for some of us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Chlorophyll-containing, mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
(Algae, NCI Thesaurus)
Earth also has vegetation cover on land that binds the soil with its roots and helps block the wind and rain that wash the particles out of the atmosphere.
(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)
The shoot can bend towards where light is unobstructed and the roots can grow towards water or more nutrient-rich soil.
(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)
Every year, scientists have harvested the plants in the chambers and measured their total biomass, stems, roots and other key traits.
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
One gene, called CLE53, reduces colonization rates once the roots have been colonized.
(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)
“Grafting allows for the combination of the desired shoot characteristics with roots that can overcome environmental stress.”
(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)
The oil extracted from the roots of Angelica archangelica.
(Angelica Root Oil, NCI Thesaurus)
