to root

To move earth with a tool to make a hole

To take something out of the ground by digging

To move through something by digging a hole or tunnel

Dig in the ground with the nose to find food, like a pig

To push the nose into the ground to find food, like pigs do

To look for food by pushing the nose into the ground

To dig in the ground or search through things with hands

To search through a place or container in a messy way

To put something over another thing to protect or hide it

To cheer for a person or team so they do well

Find and completely remove something harmful or hidden

To begin to exist and become accepted by people

To settle in one place and start living there

Pull a plant up from the ground so it cannot grow back

To search through a place or container in a messy way

To cheer for someone loudly to show support

A sweet fizzy drink without alcohol flavored with root and herb extracts

The main reason why a problem happens

A channel inside a tooth root that has nerves and blood vessels

A number that when multiplied by itself gives a given number

A cool underground room that keeps vegetables like potatoes and carrots fresh

A vegetable that grows under the ground like a carrot or potato

All the parts under the ground of a plant that hold it in soil and take water

A cold drink of root beer with a scoop of ice cream

A large bumpy root vegetable with a mild celery taste used in cooking

A number that when multiplied by itself twice gives a given number

A plant root people believe has magical or healing powers that people sometimes use as a drug

A disease that makes plant roots soft and brown after too much water

A plant root used to add a sweet, slightly bitter flavor to candies, drinks, and medicine

The origin in the past from which something developed

A starchy root vegetable eaten as a main food in tropical regions

People use a dried, roasted root instead of coffee to add flavor

A group of nerve fibers at the back of the spinal cord that carry messages about feeling into it

A plant with a large part under the ground that people eat, like a potato or carrot

The basic form of a word after removing beginnings and endings

A thick root from the blueberry plant once used in traditional medicine

A fungus that attacks the roots of apple trees and makes them rot

Hard wood from a shrub that people use to make tobacco pipes

A fungus that infects plant roots and causes brown rot in crops like peas or potatoes

Pain, weakness, and numbness in the neck and arm from a pinched nerve

A number that makes a square matrix have determinant zero when subtracted from its diagonal entries

A plant that lives for several years with divided leaves and hanging brown-purple and orange-pink flowers

A small plant with grasslike leaves whose bitter root was used to treat stomach pain

A hairy plant from Europe and Asia with small yellow flowers and a root used in old medicines

A wildflower without leaves that gets food from fungi and grows from a hard mass of roots underground

A small European plant like cress with knotted white roots that grows in damp places

A North American wild plant with toothed leaves and strong smelling roots used to add taste or to treat illness

A North American plant with strong tasting roots used to flavor food or as medicine

A small North American orchid with yellowish-brown flowers marked by dark veins, found from Arizona to the eastern United States

A tall plant with spikes of small white or purple flowers that lives for many years

The root of a climbing plant used to make a natural insect poison

A North American orchid with pale yellow or green stems and almost no leaves

A part of a plant that grows from a stem or leaf instead of the main root

A North American plant with small white flowers sometimes used in herbal medicine

A nerve branch at the front of the spinal cord that carries signals to muscles

Many thin roots growing abnormally near a plant's base, often caused by a disease called crown gall

A white root grated to give sauces or meat a strong hot taste

A family background from a culture that is not White Protestant

A part of a plant that grows from the stem above ground and holds the plant in place

A small wild plant with purple flowers that grows in European meadows

A North American wild plant with long clusters of small flowers once used as medicine

A small group of cells at the tip of a plant root that protects it as it grows through soil

A vegetable with a large, round root that people eat instead of potatoes

A plant that grows up walls using small roots that stick to surfaces

A thin thread on a plant root that takes in water and nutrients from the soil

A mountain plant with thick pink-tipped leaves and yellow flowers used in herbal medicine

A plant with almost no leaves and pale yellow-green stems and flowers

A tall plant with blue berries and a thick root used as medicine

A white root vegetable like a carrot that you eat raw or cooked

A North American plant with strong spicy roots used for food and medicine

A North American plant with bright orange flowers used as a medicine

A group of nerves at the back of the spine that carries feeling from the body to the spinal cord

The dried part of a plant used to flavor drinks and herbal medicines

A North American plant with small white flowers whose roots people use in cough medicines

A plant from eastern North America with small white flowers and roots used in medicine

A rough wild plant from eastern North America with large leaves and purple or dull red flowers

A climbing plant whose root has a poison used to stun fish and kill insects

A nerve that comes out of the spinal cord, joins another nerve, and carries messages to and from the body

A small plant with leafless stems that grows in North American forests and has white flowers with purple spots

A tall herb with blue berries and a thick knotty root once used as medicine

A strong-smelling upright plant with toothed leaves and yellow flowers

A forest plant with strong-smelling leaves and yellow flowers

A wildflower with almost no leaves, red stems, and pale pink flowers with brown stripes

A thick bright yellow root used as a spice and traditional medicine

A plant with long thin leaves and a bitter root used to treat stomach pain

The front branch of a spinal nerve that sends movement signals to muscles

A plant that lives many years with a thick knotted yellow underground stem and large rounded leaves