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The quiet half of every plant, doing all the work where nobody claps.
means The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws up water and nutrients — and, by extension, the source or origin of anything.
from From Old English 'rōt,' itself borrowed from Old Norse 'rót,' both reaching back to a Proto-Germanic source and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to grow' — making it a distant cousin of Latin 'radix' (whence 'radish' and 'radical'). The figurative sense of 'origin' or 'source' is ancient: the idea that everything visible grows from something hidden below is older than the word itself.
- hidden majority
- Some plants grow more underground than above
- all-powerful
- Root access means total control of a computer
- social glue
- A single fig tree can house entire root systems for ants
- deep reach
- Some tree roots descend over 60 meters down
- math origin
- Square root concept predates the symbol by millennia
root beer — carbonated soft drink created in 1876 by pharmacist charles hires in philadelphia
root canal — endodontic dental procedure to remove infected pulp from inside a tooth
root vegetable — edible plants like carrots, potatoes, and beets that grow underground