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What does take root mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word take root? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold.
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Despite the great enthusiasm for American methods, Fordism, as it was becoming known, did not take root in Germany.
Those winged seeds store enough energy to take root in a thick layer of partially decomposed leaves.
Complexities of politics and dogma take root well beneath the surface of what had seemed to be a simple, resoluble situation.
She played the character as a fragile English rose struggling to take root in the immoral mire of Berlin.
Trim up overhanging foliage from surrounding plants and simultaneously cut back any stray grass runners before they take root in adjacent beds.
It spread over the floor with a fecund exuberance that brought to mind cypress vines, plants that take root wherever they touch the ground.

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