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What is the noun for rootedly?

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root
  1. 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.
  2. A root vegetable.
  3. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
  4. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
  5. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
  6. The primary source; origin.
  7. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
  8. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
  9. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
  10. (computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
  11. (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.
  12. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
  13. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
  14. The lowest place, position, or part.
  15. (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.
  16. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
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  18. Examples:
    1. “If the primary root remains the largest root of the plant and continues its growth to become the main root, it is known as a tap root.”
      “To Kaitlin, he looked like the root of all her nightmares.”
      “That old adage is actually the root of our discussion and begs another question.”
rooting
  1. A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
  2. The process of forming roots.
  3. A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
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rooter
  1. One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
  2. (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “When Tiger seemed too good for his age, and the other parents took him for a ringer, Tida was his one rooter on the course.”
      “Another fan, this one a Patriots rooter, clearly had had more than his share of beer and was making a spectacle of himself in the stands.”
      “From behind the other closed doors, the merry voices of the checker-players and rooter grew very audible.”
rootling
  1. A small or miniature root; a rootlet.
  2. a plantling just beginning to root.
roots
  1. Ancestry.
  2. Beginnings; origin.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Chris has roots in the Kilmead area as some of his relatives resided at Moatfield at one time.”
      “Naaz Hosseini's voice slips from a serene hum to a full-throated wail to a sweet high-pitched lilt, flavored by her roots in Armenia and Persia.”
      “At The Australian, they reminisced about News Corp's Australian roots as Rupert clocked up yet another corporate victory.”
rootery
  1. A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as a garden decoration.
roothold
  1. Attachment by means of roots.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Where the peak leaned to the valley, the trunk of a giant pine jutted forth slantingly from a roothold a little below the summit.”
      “Gnarled, stunted cedars and gray, twisted cypress clung for a roothold to these barren ledges.”
      “This will allow young native trees such as oak, ash or beech to reclaim a roothold in the woods.”
rootedness
  1. The state or quality of being rooted
  2. Examples:
    1. “An uncle might be around to offer a spare bedroom, or a job at the plant, or the church might be there for guidance, for rootedness.”
      “Frank Griswold and the Trinity Institute have used the image to signify both our rootedness in tradition and our innovation within it.”
      “However, his insights demand a stronger rootedness in postmodern theories of identity and self-reflexive fiction.”
rootlessness
  1. The property of being rootless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I think about her whenever I consider my own rootlessness and am graced by the memory of how quickly she sought land and soil to affirm her place in America.”
      “He moved around a lot with his father's job, and a rootlessness developed that still remains.”
      “Culture provides identity and, in a fast-changing world of displacement and rootlessness, becomes ever more important.”
rootlet
  1. One of the smallest roots, hair roots.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rootlet then drills into the branch and spreads its developing roots under the bark and into the living tissue.”
      “Upon germination, broomrape seeds develop a small radicle that grows chemotropically towards host roots and firmly connects to a host rootlet.”
      “It sent downward a rootlet to get soil and water, and upward it shot a stem to which the first pair of leaves was attached.”
roots
  1. plural of root
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Chris has roots in the Kilmead area as some of his relatives resided at Moatfield at one time.”
      “Naaz Hosseini's voice slips from a serene hum to a full-throated wail to a sweet high-pitched lilt, flavored by her roots in Armenia and Persia.”
      “At The Australian, they reminisced about News Corp's Australian roots as Rupert clocked up yet another corporate victory.”
rootlessnesses
rootlings
  1. plural of rootling
rootholds
  1. plural of roothold
rootlets
  1. plural of rootlet
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Supplementations of hormones can, for example, promote growth of rootlets in tissue culture.”
      “Below the cervical enlargement, the dorsal rootlets, roots and ganglia diminish rapidly in size.”
      “The barley was first allowed to germinate, or sprout rootlets, in a moist environment.”
rootings
rooteries
  1. plural of rootery
rooters
  1. plural of rooter
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Imagine, Chiefs rooters applauding loudly for the Giants before their contest, acknowledging their opponents' link to New York City.”
      “It won't be long, I'm sure, before Tiger rooters will start painting the links red.”
      “Cubs rooters, in fact, may well be the only fans in professional sports that learn from an early age to wear a protective cup to games.”
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