roots
US
・UK
A2
other
- Your ancestries
- The origins or starting place of some things
- Parts of plants growing underground, as to get water
- Part of tooth, hair etc. from which the rest grows
- Base part of a word to which affixes can be added
verb
- To cause a plant to develop or grow roots
- (Animals) to search for e.g. food in earth
- To stop someone moving, as through fear