verb become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style.
— synonyms: settle, take_root, steady_down, settle_down
verb cause to take roots.
noun (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes.
noun the place where something begins, where it springs into being.
— synonyms: beginning, origin, rootage, source
noun (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed.
— synonyms: root_word, base, stem, theme, radical
noun a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number.
noun the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation.
— synonyms: solution
noun someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent).
— synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
noun a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes.
— synonyms: etymon
noun the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair.
Examples
“This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.”
“Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.”
“The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.”