Root

root,?i. (Pot.) That part of a plant, usually underground, from which it receives support and n. through which it imbibes nourishment from the exearth, etc. An edible or esa. culent root; that which resembles a root as a source the of nourishment or support; that from which anything A proceeds as if by growth or development; an ancestor or progenitor: an early orrace; a word from which Cother words are formed; a radical; cause or occasion by which an}' thing is brought about. (Math.) Root. That factor of a quantity a., a. crown or head of which when multiplied root; b, b, rootlets into itself will produce that c, c< c, fibers. quantity. That which resembles a root in position; on the lowest place, position, or part. — v.i. To enter the earth as roots; to take root and begin to grow; to become firmly fixed or established, — v. t. To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth;; end, eve, term; In, Ice; 8dd, tone, 6r; ROPE 355 to. make deep or radical; to tear up by the root, eradicate, extirpate. — Rootlet, n. A radicle; a little root; a branch of a root. — Root'y, -I, a. Full of roots. — Root, v. i. To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine; to f aw» servilely. — v. t. To turn up with the snout, as swine. 367