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root

/ɹuːt/noun

The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.

Example sentence

  • “This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.”
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Related words

trunkThe luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.vineA climbing plant that produces grapes.branchThe woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.mossAny of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the phylum Bryophyta (formerly division Musci).twigA small thin branch of a tree or bush.fernAny of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.