Alum root
() A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. |
Chay root
() The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. |
Choy root
() See Chay root. |
Primary
(a.) First in order of time or development or in intention |
Primary
(a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher |
Primary
(a.) First in dignity or importance |
Primary
(a.) Earliest formed |
Primary
(a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree |
Primary
(n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance |
Primary
(n.) A primary meeting |
Primary
(n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird. |
Primary
(n.) A primary planet |
Root
(v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. |
Root
(v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility |
Root
(v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout |
Root
(n.) 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. |
Root
(n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids. |
Root
(n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc. |
Root
(n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support |
Root
(n.) An ancestor or progenitor |
Root
(n.) A primitive form of speech |
Root
(n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about |
Root
(n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity |
Root
(n.) The fundamental tone of any chord |
Root
(n.) The lowest place, position, or part. |
Root
(n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations. |
Root
(v. i.) To fix the root |
Root
(v. i.) To be firmly fixed |
Root
(v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth |
Root
(v. t.) To tear up by the root |
primary
primary election | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
| direct primary | a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office |
| closed primary | a primary in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote, closed primaries strengthen party unity |
| open primary | a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
| primary care | the medical care received on first contact with the medical system (before being referred elsewhere) |
| primary censorship | armed forces censorship performed by personnel of a military unit on the personal communications of persons assigned to that unit |
| primary health care | health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system |
primary
primary feather
primary quill | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
primary coil
primary winding
primary | coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit, current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil |
root cellar
cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
voltaic cell
galvanic cell
primary cell | an electric cell that generates an electromotive force by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy, cannot be recharged |
primary color
primary colour | any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing |
primary color for pigments
primary colour for pigments | any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing, the primary colors for pigments are red, blue, and yellow |
primary color for light
primary colour for light | any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing, the primary colors for light are red, blue, and green |
primary subtractive color for light
primary subtractive colour for light | any of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white light, the primary subtractive colors for light are magenta, cyan, and yellow |
primary sex characteristic
primary sexual characteristic
primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
| primary dentition | dentition of deciduous teeth |
primary tooth
deciduous tooth
baby tooth
milk tooth | one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one ofin children) |
root
tooth root | the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support |
| root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
dorsal root
dorsal horn | one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
ventral root
ventral horn
anterior root
anterior horn | one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers |
eigenvalue
eigenvalue of a matrix
eigenvalue of a square matrix
characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
root
root word
base
stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
etymon
root | a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes |
| root vegetable | any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
celeriac
celery root | thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant |
| chicory chicory root | root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee |
taro
taro root
cocoyam
dasheen
edda | tropical starchy tuberous root |
| root beer float | an iceream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer |
| root beer | carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs |
| grass roots | the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) |
solution
root | the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
grade school
grammar school
elementary school
primary school | a school for young children, usually the first or grades |
beginning
origin
root
rootage
source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
| primary | (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it |
ancestor
ascendant
ascendent
antecedent
root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
health professional
primary care provider
PCP
health care provider
caregiver | a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability |
| primary care physician | the physician who provides primary care, the primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system |
blue cohosh
blueberry root
papooseroot
papoose root
squawroot
squaw root
Caulophyllum thalictrioides
Caulophyllum thalictroides | tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally |
goldenseal
golden seal
yellow root
turmeric root
Hydrastis Canadensis | perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves |
| horseradish horseradish root | the root of the horseradish plant, it is grated or ground and used for seasoning |
crinkleroot
crinkleoot
crinkle root
pepper root
toothwort
Cardamine diphylla
Dentaria diphylla | North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots |
| chicory chicory root | the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute |
| rattlesnake root | a plant of the genus Nabalus |
| rattlesnake root Prenanthes purpurea | herb of central and southern Europe having purple florets |
| coral root | a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor |
spotted coral root
Corallorhiza maculata | common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips, Guatemala to Canada |
striped coral root
Corallorhiza striata | nearly leafless wildflower with erect reddish-purple stems bearing racemes of pale pinkish and brownish-striped flowers, western Canada to Mexico |
early coral root
pale coral root
Corallorhiza trifida | plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips, northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska |