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:
  • plant organ

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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