ROOTS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ROOTS?

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Associations of "Roots" (30 Words)

arboreal	Relating to trees. Arboreal rodents.
arborescent	Resembling a tree in form and branching structure. Arborescent succulents.
base	Of low birth or station base is archaic in this sense. She uses existing data as the base for the study.
beginning	The act of starting something. They had reached the beginning of the wood.
cause	Cause to do cause to act in a specified manner. They are trying to determine the cause of the crash.
coniferous	Of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves.
cornerstone	A stone that forms the base of a corner of a building, joining two walls. A national minimum wage remained the cornerstone of policy.
foundation	The action of establishing an institution or organization. The foundation of a civil service college.
groundwork	Lowest support of a structure. The inquiry s findings are expected to lay the groundwork for a complete overhaul of the system.
grove	A small wood or other group of trees. An olive grove.
hypostasis	(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality.
implanted	Deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held. Implanted convictions.
initially	At the beginning. Initially he thought the new concept was nonsense.
log	Enter an incident or fact in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record. The virus can log keystrokes that you make when you access all sorts of services.
nature	The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized. It s not in her nature to listen to advice.
oak	A smoky flavour or nose characteristic of wine aged in barrels made from oak wood. Soft oak overtones.
origin	A place where a nerve or blood vessel begins or branches from a main nerve or blood vessel. He comes from good origins.
original	An original creation i e an audio recording from which copies can be made. The book still has its original binding.
originally	From or in the beginning; at first. Potatoes originally came from South America.
radix	The positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place. Judaism is the radix of Christianity.
reed	A wind instrument played with a reed. A harvest of thatching reeds.
rooted	Absolutely still. The front wheel looks rooted.
sapwood	The soft outer layers of recently formed wood between the heartwood and the bark, containing the functioning vascular tissue.
source	Obtain from a particular source. The writer carefully sourced her report.
stem	Remove the stems from fruit or tobacco leaves. For automatic natural language processing the words must be stemmed.
tree	Force a hunted animal to take refuge in a tree. The hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it.
trunk	A large box with a hinged lid for storing or transporting clothes and other articles. He put his golf bag in the trunk.
unabridged	Not shortened. An unabridged novel.
willow	A tree or shrub of temperate climates which typically has narrow leaves, bears catkins, and grows near water. Its pliant branches yield osiers for basketry, and the timber is traditionally used to make cricket bats.
woodland	Land that is covered with trees and shrubs. Large areas of ancient woodland.