A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients.
Root or roots may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
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The Root (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture
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The Roots, a location in the video game
Films
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Roots (film) (), a 1955 Mexican drama
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Poor Relatives, also released as Roots, a 2005 Russian film
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Roots, the English title for the 2019 Tamil film Sethum Aayiram Pon
Literature and stage plays
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Koreni (novel) (English: The Roots), a 1954 novel by Serbian author Dobrica Ćosić
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Roots (play), a 1958 play by Arnold Wesker
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, a 1976 novel by Alex Haley about slavery in the United States
Music
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Root (chord), the fundamental note of a chord
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Roots music (disambiguation)
Groups and individuals
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Root (band), a Czech metal band
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Root (singer), a Japanese singer
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Root!, an Australian alt-country band
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The Roots, a hip-hop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Albums and EPs
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Roots (Idrees Sulieman album), 1958
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Roots (The Everly Brothers album), 1968
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Roots (Curtis Mayfield album), 1971
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, 1975
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Roots (Slide Hampton album), 1985
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Roots (Sepultura album), 1996
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Roots (Cedar Walton album), 1997
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Root, a 1999 album by Thurston Moore
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Roots (Blue Mountain album), 2001
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Roots (Shawn McDonald album), 2008
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R.O.O.T.S., a 2009 album by Flo Rida
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Roots (Johnny Winter album), 2011
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Roots (EP), 2013, by Orla Gartland
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Roots (The Cavemen album), 2020
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Roots, an album by Martin Fröst
Songs
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"Root", a song by Deftones on the 1995 album Adrenaline
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"The Root", a song by D'Angelo, on the 2000 album Voodoo
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"Roots", by the band Spunge on their 2002 album The Story So Far
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"Roots", a song on the 2006 Show of Hands album Witness
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"Roots" (song), a song by Imagine Dragons
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"Roots", a 2016 song by the band Parmalee
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"Roots", by the band In This Moment on their 2017 album Ritual
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"Roots (World Junior Song)", a 2018 by The Reklaws
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"Roots", a 2019 song by Galantis and Valerie Broussard
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"R.O.O.T.S.", a 2009 song by Flo Rida
Television
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Roots (1977 miniseries), based upon the Alex Haley novel
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Roots (2016 miniseries), remake of the 1977 miniseries
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.hack//Roots, a 2006 anime series created by Bee Train
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"The Roots" ( The Amazing World of Gumball), a 2016 episode
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"Roots" ( Doctors), a 2003 episode
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"Roots" ( Get a Life), a 1991 episode
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"Roots" ( Haven), a 2011 episode
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"Roots" ( One Day at a Time) a 2018 episode
Businesses
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Root, Inc., an American insurance company
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Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide
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Roots (restaurant), a Michelin starred restaurant in York, in England
Computing
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/root, the Unix superuser's home directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
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ROOT, an object-oriented multipurpose data analysis package developed by CERN
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root, a name for the superuser account in some operating systems
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Root directory, the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy
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Root node, the node in a tree data structure from which every other node is accessible
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ROOTS (software), a series of genealogy programs
Mathematics
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nth root of a number
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Root of unity, a complex number which is an th root of one
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Root of an equation, a solution of the equation
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Root of a function, more meaningfully called zero of a function, an argument for which the function evaluates to zero
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Digital root, the sum of a number's digits
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Any of the elements of a root system of vectors
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One designated vertex of a rooted tree in graph theory
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The root or base of a number system
People
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Root (surname), a family name
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Roots Manuva (born 1972), British rapper
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Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer, also known as "Roots"
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Root, Japanese singer from Strawberry prince
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Elmar Roots (1900–1962), Estonian veterinarian
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Byron Root Pierce (1829–1924), American dentist and American Civil War veteran
Places
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Root, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lucerne
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Root River (disambiguation)
United States
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Roots, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Henrietta Township, Jackson County
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Root, New York, a town in Montgomery County
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Roots, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place in Blair County
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Root Township, Adams County, Indiana
Other uses
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Root (board game), a game published by Leder Games
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Root (Chinese constellation)
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Root (linguistics), the core form of a word
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Roots, one's cultural heritage
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Root, Australasian slang for sexual intercourse
See also
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Root of all evil (disambiguation)
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Root cause (disambiguation)
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Rooter (disambiguation)
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Rootes (disambiguation)
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Rooting (disambiguation)
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Radix (disambiguation)
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Rut (disambiguation)
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Solution (disambiguation)
