Term: taproot: (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: parkia javanica: tall evergreen rain forest tree with wide-spreading crown having yellow-white flowers; grown as an ornamental in parks and large gardens
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: organophosphate nerve agent: any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: purgatory: (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: finish: the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: inferiority: the quality of being a competitive disadvantage
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: kvetch: (Yiddish) a nagging complaint
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: calves' feet: feet of calves used as food; usually jellied
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: white wood aster: rhizomatous perennial wood aster of eastern North America with white flowers
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: interlocutor: the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
Broader: root: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground | Unrelated: fusion: correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization