Vocabulary : Root to Rooty
Root : To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; -- usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team. ;; To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. ;; Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely. ;; To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth. ;; The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. ;; The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, mRootcap : A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
Rooted : of Root ;; Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
Rooter : One who roots, or applauds. ;; One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
Rootery : A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
