Carrot, e.g

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.