Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)root(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground (n)beginning, origin, root, rootage, sourcethe place where something begins, where it springs into being“the Italian beginning of the Renaissance”,
“Jupiter was the origin of the radiation”,
“Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River”,
“communism's Russian root” (n)roota number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number (n)solution, rootthe set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation (n)etymon, roota simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes (n)rootthe embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair Verbs
(v)roottake root and begin to grow“this plant roots quickly” (v)rootcome into existence, originate“The problem roots in her depression” (v)rootcheer for“She roots for the Broncos” (v)rootplant by the roots (v)rout, root, rootledig with the snout“the pig was rooting for truffles” (v)rootcause to take roots