LekhoriLekhoriThe 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.
An act of rummaging or searching.
It was always sensible to get off the busy streets if you were going to have a root inside your girlfriend's bra.
To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
The cuttings are starting to root.
An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”).
In July this year, Mrs. Betty Root, who is in charge of the reading centre at Reading University's Institute of Education, reported 'that there are now more backward readers than ever, in spite of the large number of teaching methods now available'.
An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player.
PIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (Icelandic rót), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo...
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To turn up or dig with the snout.
A pig roots the earth for truffles.
A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place.