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
Type of:Types:- calamus
- taro; cocoyam; dasheen; eddo
- ginseng
- horseradish; horseradish root
- radish
- chicory; chicory root
- salsify; oyster plant
- Hottentot bread; Hottentot's bread
- briarroot
- orrisroot; orris
- sarsaparilla root
- licorice root
- senega
- mandrake root; mandrake
- cassava; manioc
- carrot
- parsnip
- pneumatophore
- taproot
- adventitious root
- rootlet
- prop root
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