Read full poem →Prostrate, with tears their kindred plant bedew,
And close embrace as to the roots they grew.
The face was all that now remain'd of thee,
Dictionary Entry
The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
In a Sentence
“This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rootsroots grassroots nerveroots deeproots historical
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “roots”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →4.
I remember the time, for the roots of my hair were stirr'd
By a shuffled step, by a dead weight trail'd, by a whisper'd fright,
Read full poem →And its vapour and storm of its steam as the sighing of spirits to be;
And its noise as the noise in a dream; and its depth as the roots of
the sea:
Read full poem →And its vapour and storm of its steam as the sighing of spirits to be;
And its noise as the noise in a dream; and its depth as the roots of the sea:
And the height of its heads as the height of the utmost stars of the air:
Read full poem →So I smote them, and their gore
Stained the roots my myrtle bore;
But the time of youth is fled,
Read full poem →Who followed over moss and twisted roots,
And pushed through the wet leaves of trailing vines
Read full poem →And my interests range
From the sky, to the roots
Of this dung-hill you live in,
Read full poem →we put in our handkerchiefs;
and the roots of one
that spread into a river:
Read full poem →Stir from your roots, walk, poplar!
You are more beautiful than they are.