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Boots. You can't go out in the rain without your daisies.
Roots is Jamaican slang for authentic, culturally and ethnically sound.
n. a section of trail that is difficult to ride because of rocks, tree roots, steep drops.
Get back to one's roots is slang for to return to, or rediscover one's racial, ancestral or emotional heritage.
Reference to the character in "Roots."
According to naval folklore, this term has its roots in the act of removing the "cat" (cat o' nine tails) from its bag in a preparation to administer a punishment. However, no evidence actually documents that such whips were stored in sacks, or that the phrase "let the cat out of the bag" was even associated with maritime origins or usage.
Kunta Kinte's daughter from the movie Roots.
dried roots of trees
Daisy roots is London Cockney rhyming slang for boots.
From Kunta Kinte in the book/movie "Roots."
Reference to the motion picture "Roots": A Mandinka warrior was a 'Big Black Buck'.
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To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.
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That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.
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An American tree of the Laurel family (Sassafras officinale); also, the bark of the roots, which has an aromatic smell and taste.
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A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.
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The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
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To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.
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Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
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To be torn up by the roots.
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A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.
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The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc.
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A yellowish amorphous alkaloid extracted from the rootstock of Veratrum album.
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To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
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Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
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The root or rootstock of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep, lively yellow or saffron color, and has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test.
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The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of Hebrew roots.
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A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.
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The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
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The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
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An East Indian grass (Andropogon muricatus); also, its fragrant roots which are much used for making mats and screens. Also called kuskus, and khuskhus.
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