Meaning & use
roots
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The underground parts of a plant that absorb water and nutrients and anchor it in the soil.
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The old oak tree's roots spread far beneath the lawn.
She traveled to the village to reconnect with her family's roots.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense, meaning one's origins or ancestry, is extremely common in everyday speech.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
The origin or ancestral background of a person, family, or tradition.
He returned to Jamaica to reconnect with his roots.
3. noun
In mathematics, a value that produces a given number when multiplied by itself a specified number of times.
The square root of nine is three.
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