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Definition 1:
The part of a plant that grows underground, gets water from the ground, and holds the plant in place see color picture on page C6.
Examples:
Elm trees have shallow roots.
Pull weeds up by the roots so that they don’t grow back.
Definition 2:
The part of a tooth, hair, fingernail, etc., that is attached to the body .
Examples:
You can tell that she dyes her hair blonde because her dark roots are showing.
Definition 3:
The cause or source of something usually singular .
Examples:
He believes that money is the root of all evil. [=money causes people to do bad things]
We need to get to the root of the problem. = We need to get to the root cause of the problem.
Simple greed was at the root of the robbery. [=was the reason for the robbery]
Definition 4:
The origin of something usually plural .
Examples:
Rock-and-roll music has its roots in blues music. [=rock-and-roll music originated/developed from blues music]
Definition 5:
The family history of a person or a group of people .
Examples:
They have traced their roots [=ancestry] back several generations.
Definition 6:
A special connection to something + in see also grass roots.
Examples:
She’s a dedicated teacher with roots in the community.
His family has roots in the New York theater scene.
A novelist with roots deep in Southern life
Definition 7:
A number that is multiplied by itself a certain number of times to produce another number see also cube root square root.
Examples:
2 is the 4th root of 16. [=2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16]
Definition 8:
A word from which other words are formed .
Examples:
“Butler” and “bottle” come from the same Latin root.
“Hold” is the root of “holder.”
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