Carrots and turnips are edible roots.
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Roots
//ɹuːts//
Synonyms for "roots" (7 found)
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Translations
18 translations across 7 languages.
Central Kurdish
2 entries- باوباپیران noun (ancestors)
- ناخ noun (beginnings)
French
3 entries- aïeux noun (ancestors)
- origines noun (beginnings)
- sources noun (beginnings)
Ingrian
1 entries- juuret noun (ancestors)
Italian
3 entries- antenati noun (ancestors)
- origini noun (beginnings)
- radici noun (beginnings)
Japanese
3 entries- ルーツ noun (ancestors)
- ルーツ noun (beginnings)
- 起源 noun (beginnings)
Polish
4 entries- korzenie noun (ancestors)
- korzenie noun (beginnings)
- odrosty noun (grown-out hair)
- źródła noun (beginnings)
Slovak
2 entries- korene noun (ancestors)
- korene noun (beginnings)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Pull the plant up by the roots.
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The roots of the plant are greedy for water.
Source: tatoeba (58388)
The roots of this tree go down deep.
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