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taproot
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taproot \Tap"root`\, n. (Bot.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) A long, tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions). (from early 17th c.)
WordNet
n. (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem
something that provides an important central source for growth or development; "the taproot of his resentment"; "genius and insanity spring from the same taproot"
Wikipedia
In a plant with a taproot system, the taproot is the largest, most central, and most dominant root from which other roots sprout laterally. Typically a taproot is somewhat straight and very thick, is tapering in shape, and grows directly downward.
Taproot is a four-piece rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan. They are most known for their hit single " Poem" ( #5 most played rock track in 2002), as well as a number of other singles from 2000 to the present.
A taproot is a type of plant root.
Taproot may also refer to:
- Taproot (band), an American rock band
- Taproot (album), a 1990 album by Michael Hedges
- Taproot Foundation, an American nonprofit organization
- Taproot Theatre Company, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
- Tap Roots, a 1948 film starring Van Heflin
Taproot is a recording by guitarist Michael Hedges released on the Windham Hill label. It was a Grammy nominee for Best New Age Album.
Usage examples of "taproot".
He had cut as deep into the taproot as the limited space in the hole allowed.
There is a supreme faith among common people--it is, indeed, the very taproot of democracy--that although the unfriendly one may persist long in his power and arrogance, there is a moving Force which commands events.
A pumptree whose taproot reached down to a stream of hot water grew in the center where on bitter nights one might lean against it for warmth.
Rather, it was a statement of his own fervent patriotism and the taproot conviction that American freedoms were not ideals still to be obtained, but rights long and firmly established by British law and by the courage and sacrifices of generations of Americans.
Here, in the City of London, was the taproot from which Empire and wealth and so many other fine leaves had sprouted.
But your taproot drinks of the Sacred Springs In the living rock of Law.
Madeleine learned that this tower was based on a taproot that descended far into the ocean, kilometers deep, in fact.
Now they seemed more like taproots, or the boughs of a tree sprouting from nothing to full vigor in mere seconds.
For them, the Palaces were the greatest archaeological site in the world, their ruinous cellars taproots to an earlier age of man.
Their taproots were known to reach an underwater spring, far below the level where a storm could stir the sea, which brought heat from deep-lying rocks.
The glowing colonies were floating along the isothermal currents here, feeding on the reddish veins of magnesium sulfate that rose to the ice shelf above like so many bloody taproots.
A shot of metamorphine into the taproot will put it out of commission.