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vb. (en-third-person singulartake root)
Usage examples of "takes root".
But the unusually dry weather holds, and vegetation rapidly takes root on the bare ground.
One species takes root, then overbreeds and destroys the environment.
What if when a piggy dies, if they lay out his body just so, it takes root and turns into something else?
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes, with an unprepared people, a tyranny still, of the many, the few, or the one.
Forging takes root as a custom, nay, as an amusement for the high ones.
When an idea obtains a hold on him it takes root in an obscure and profound conviction upon which neither discussion nor argument have any effect.
The soil is composed of sand and red or yellow clay, and this is covered by a layer of earth, in which the vegetation takes root.
A powerful Imperial faction, the Kaarenth Dissension, takes root in the Corva sector.
Where a poisonous tree takes root, adjacent to it stands a tree that provides the antidote for the poison.