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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cube root ▪ 4 is the cube root of 64 grass roots ▪ We are hoping for full participation at grass roots level. root beer root canal ▪ root canal treatment treatment in which a dentist removes a diseased area in the ...
Usage examples of root.
For the mind and the passion of Hitler - all the aberrations that possessed his feverish brain - had roots that lay deep in German experience and thought.
As such minute doses of the salts of ammonia affect the leaves, we may feel almost sure that Drosera absorbs and profits by the amount, though small, which is present in rainwater, in the same manner as other plants absorb these same salts by their roots.
This salt, when absorbed by the roots, does not cause the tentacles to be inflected.
Indeed it is not in the public interest that straightforwardness should be extirpated root and branch, for the presence of a small modicum of sincerity acts as a wholesome irritant to the academicism of the greatest number, stimulating it to consciousness of its own happy state, and giving it something to look down upon.
The willow has flourished by sending deep roots into the earth under the acequia, a small water ditch.
Its tuberous root has been found to contain a particular volatile acrid principle which exercises distinct medicinal effects, though these are altogether dissipated if the roots are subjected to heat by boiling or baking.
It is not given at all internally, but the acrid pulp of the root has been used as a stimulating plaster.
The juice of the root is very acrid when sniffed up the nostrils, and causes a copious flow of water therefrom, thus giving marked relief for obstinate congestive headache of a dull, passive sort.
The root when incised secretes from its wounded bark a yellow juice of a narcotic odour and acrid taste.
The root and leaves contain an acrid juice, dispersed by heat, which is of service for irritability of the bladder.
The ivy-leaved variety is found in England, with nodding fresh-coloured blossoms, and a brown intensely acrid root.
The root of the larger white Water Lily is acrid, and will redden the skill if the juice is applied thereto.
The hair was so acutely sensitive that the slightest touch occasioned severe pain at the roots.
Crimson clover has highest adaptation for sandy loam soils into which the roots can penetrate easily.
No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to survive.