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Synonyms for root

sense of belonging

put down roots

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  • settle
  • set up home
  • get established
  • make your home
  • establish yourself

root and branch: complete

root and branch: completely

root for someone

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root something or someone out: get rid of

root something or someone out: discover

take root: take hold

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take root: germinate

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Synonyms for root

a fundamental principle or underlying concept

a point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate

the main part of a word to which affixes are attached

to implant so deeply as to make change nearly impossible

to express approval, especially by clapping

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Synonyms for root

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

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

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

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

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

the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

take root and begin to grow

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come into existence, originate

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plant by the roots

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dig with the snout

become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

cause to take roots

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The concentration corresponding to the lower [IC.sub.50] values, obtained with cultivar BR-1 in order to inhibit the development of hypocotyls or rootlets, was used for the comparative analysis of extracts from other cultivars.
No bong needed here for a buzz of heady malt rootlet aroma and a high of milled and baked-on-site, warm whole wheat bread loaves.
The preganglionic segments include the cervical spinal cord root entry zone of the ventral and dorsal nerve rootlets, the intrathecal course of these rootlets, and their intraforaminal course up until the DRG.
The rootlets were characterised by a higher concentration of valerenic acid than the rhizomes, which was in accordance with the findings reported by Wills and Shohet (2003).
The F layer usually presents from vestiges to 0.3 cm, only in structurally complex areas can reach 2 cm (with rootlets).
Their infections can result in necrotic brown lesions and tunneling within rootlets. This can interfere with water and nutrient movement within plant tissues as well as increased leakage of harvested, stored food due to lesions (Dorhout et al., 1991).
As a consequence, roots become poor in rootlets and incapable of absorbing water and nutrients necessary for an adequate development of the plant, which then becomes shorter, stunted and chlorotic (Dias-Arieira, 2010).
Specially created to infuse young readers with enthusiasm for nutritious vegetable consumption, "The Rootlets: Super Rootabilities" is a vivid tale of the superhero origins of fantastic vegetable friends.
Rumen degradability and intestinal digestibility of brewers' grains as affected by origin and heat treatment and of barley rootlets. Anim.
I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets or like the capillary oozing of water, and yet rending the hardest monuments of man's pride, if you give them time.
Thin filaments from the cut proximal dorsal rootlets were teased apart until muscle spindle activity from a single neuron with the most sensitive part of its receptive field being in the low back could be identified.
Lotus rootlets are often pickled with rice vinegar, sugar, chili, and/or garlic.
These structural abnormalities in CM-1 may include stretching of cranial nerves or direct compression of brain stem nuclei, compression of the posterolateral part of the medulla and the upper cervical spinal cord, vascular distortion in the territories irrigated by the vertebral and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries, and pressure on the rootlets of C1, C2, and the vagus nerves (4,5).
The stemlets and rootlets of each treatment were separately placed under 75[degrees]C for 48 hours and then their dry weights were measured.