Rhubarb vs. Root

Rhubarbnoun

Any plant of the genus Rheum, especially Rheum rhabarbarum, having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous).

Rhubarbnoun

The dried rhizome and roots of Rheum palmatum (Chinese rhubarb) or Rheum officinale (Tibetan rhubarb), from China, used as a laxative and purgative.

Rhubarbnoun

A Royal Air Force World War II code name for operations by aircraft (fighters and fighter-bombers) involving low-level flight to seek opportunistic targets.

Rhubarbnoun

General background noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in films, stage plays, etc., by actors repeating the word rhubarb; hence, such noise in other settings; rhubarb rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb.

Rhubarbnoun

An excited, angry exchange of words, especially at a sporting event.

Rhubarbnoun

A brawl.

Rhubarbadjective

Of the colour of rhubarb: either brownish-yellow (the colour of rhubarb rhizomes and roots used for medicinal purposes), or pale red (often the colour of the leafstalks of common rhubarb).

Rhubarbverb

Of fighter aircraft: to fire at a target opportunistically.

Rhubarbverb

Of an actor in a film, stage play, etc.: to repeat the word rhubarb to create the sound of indistinct conversation; hence, to converse indistinctly, to mumble.

Rhubarbverb

(transitive) To articulate indistinctly or mumble (words or phrases); to say inconsequential or vague things because one does not know what to say, or to stall for time.

Rhubarbnoun

The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceæ.

Rhubarbnoun

The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.

Rhubarbnoun

The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.

Rhubarbnoun

long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened

Rhubarbnoun

plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous

Rhubarb

Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks (petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food. The whole plant – a herbaceous perennial growing from short, thick rhizomes – is also called rhubarb.

Rootnoun

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.

Rootnoun

A root vegetable.

Rootnoun

The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.

Rootnoun

The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.

Rootnoun

The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.

Rootnoun

The primary source; origin.

Rootnoun

(arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.

Rootnoun

(arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).

Rootnoun

(analysis) A zero (of an equation).

Rootnoun

The single node of a tree that has no parent.

Rootnoun

(linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.

Rootnoun

(philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.

Rootnoun

(music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

Rootnoun

The lowest place, position, or part.

Rootnoun

(computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.

Rootnoun

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.

Rootnoun

(slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.

Rootnoun

An act of sexual intercourse.

Rootnoun

A sexual partner.

Rootverb

To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

Rootverb

To be firmly fixed; to be established.

Rootverb

To break into a computer system and obtain root access.

Rootverb

(ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.

Rootverb

(by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

Rootverb

(intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.

Rootverb

(transitive) To root out; to abolish.

Rootverb

To have sexual intercourse.

Rootverb

To grow roots

Rootverb

To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings

Rootverb

To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. See root for.

Rootverb

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

Rootverb

Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

Rootverb

To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.

Rootverb

To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

Rootverb

To be firmly fixed; to be established.

Rootverb

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.

Rootverb

To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; - used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

Rootverb

To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; - with up, out, or away.

Rootnoun

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.

Rootnoun

An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.

Rootnoun

That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.

Rootnoun

A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

Rootnoun

The time which to reckon in making calculations.

Rootnoun

That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.

Rootnoun

The lowest place, position, or part.

Rootnoun

(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

Rootnoun

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

Rootnoun

the place where something begins, where it springs into being;

Rootnoun

a number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number

Rootnoun

the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

Rootnoun

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Rootnoun

a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

Rootnoun

the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

Rootverb

take root and begin to grow;

Rootverb

come into existence, originate;

Rootverb

plant by the roots

Rootverb

dig with the snout;

Rootverb

take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for;

Rootverb

become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style;

Rootverb

cause to take roots

Rootnoun

the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres

Rootnoun

the persistent underground part of a plant, especially when fleshy and enlarged and used as a vegetable, e.g. a turnip or carrot

Rootnoun

any plant grown for its root

Rootnoun

the embedded part of a bodily organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nail

Rootnoun

the part of a thing attaching it to a greater or more fundamental whole; the end or base

Rootnoun

the basic cause, source, or origin of something

Rootnoun

family, ethnic, or cultural origins

Rootnoun

denoting or relating to something from a particular ethnic or cultural origin, especially a non-Western one

Rootnoun

(in biblical use) a scion; a descendant

Rootnoun

a morpheme, not necessarily surviving as a word in itself, from which words have been made by the addition of prefixes or suffixes or by other modification

Rootnoun

the fundamental note of a chord

Rootnoun

a number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.

Rootnoun

short for square root

Rootnoun

a value of an unknown quantity satisfying a given equation

Rootnoun

a user account with full and unrestricted access to a system

Rootnoun

an act of sexual intercourse.

Rootnoun

a sexual partner of a specified ability.

Rootnoun

an act of rooting

Rootverb

cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots

Rootverb

(of a plant or cutting) establish roots

Rootverb

establish deeply and firmly

Rootverb

have as an origin or cause

Rootverb

cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement

Rootverb

gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer)

Rootverb

have sexual intercourse with.

Rootverb

exhaust (someone) or frustrate their efforts

Rootverb

(of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food

Rootverb

search unsystematically through an untidy mass or area; rummage

Rootverb

find or extract something by rummaging

Root

In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They most often lie below the surface of the soil, but roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.