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"his roots in Texas go back a long way" "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots" "his music has African roots"nounthe condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineagetype of:
Definition that contains roots
- home relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
- butt the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- root plant by the roots
- sucker a shoot arising from a plant's roots
- root cause to take roots
- bark tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
- radical especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- vegetable edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
- dock any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- turf cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots