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A root is the part of a plant that most often lies below the surface of the soil but can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.
"Root", a song by Deftones on the 1995 album Adrenaline
"The Root", a song by D'Angelo, on the 2000 album Voodoo
"Roots", by the band Spunge on their 2002 album The Story So Far
"Roots", a song on the 2006 Show of Hands album Witness
"Roots" (Imagine Dragons song)
"Roots", a 2016 song by the band Parmalee
"Roots", by the band In This Moment on their 2017 album Ritual
"Roots (World Junior Song)", a 2018 by The Reklaws
"Roots", a 2019 song by Galantis and Valerie Broussard
Television
"Roots" (Haven), a television episode
Root Sports, a sports television network in the United States
"Root", code name of a fictional hacker in the TV series Person of Interest
Roots (1977 miniseries), based upon the novel
Roots: The Next Generations, a 1979 sequel miniseries also based upon the novel
Roots: The Gift, a 1988 television film set between the second and third episodes of the original miniseries
Roots (2016 miniseries), a remake of the 1977 miniseries
.hack//Roots, a 2006 anime series created by Bee Train
"Roots", an episode of the television series One Day at a Time
Businesses
Root, Inc., an American insurance company
Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide
Computing
/root, the Unix superuser's home directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
ROOT, an object-oriented multipurpose data analysis package
root, a name for the superuser account in some operating systems
Root directory, the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy
Root node, the node in a tree data structure from which every other node is accessible
ROOTS (software), a series of genealogy programs
Mathematics
The nth root of a number
Root of unity, a complex number which is an nth root of one
Root of an equation, a solution of the equation
Root of a function, more meaningfully called zero of a function, an argument for which the function evaluates to zero
Root of a polynomial, a zero of the corresponding polynomial function
Digital root, the sum of a number's digits
Any of the elements of a root system of vectors
One designated vertex of a rooted tree in graph theory
The root or base of a number system
Parts of objects
Root of the hair
Root of penis
Wing root, an aircraft part
The root of a mountain, in orogeny
The bottom part of a tooth
People
Root (surname), a family name
Roots Manuva (born 1972), British rapper
Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer, also known as "Roots"
Root, Japanese singer from Strawberry prince
Places
Root, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lucerne
United States
Roots, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Henrietta Township, Jackson County
Root, New York, a town in Montgomery County
Root River (Minnesota)
Root River (Wisconsin)
Other uses
Root (board game)
Root (Chinese constellation)
Root (linguistics), the core form of a word
Roots, one's cultural heritage
Root cause, the initiating cause of a condition
See also
Radix (disambiguation)
Rootes (disambiguation)
Rooting (disambiguation)
Root of all evil (disambiguation)
Rut (disambiguation)
Solution (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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