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. |
Layer
(n.) One who, or that which, lays. |
Layer
(n.) That which is laid |
Layer
(n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. |
Layer
(n.) An artificial oyster bed. |
Pipe layer
() One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc. |
Pipe layer
() A politician who works in secret |
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 |
Turf
(n.) 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 |
Turf
(n.) Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See Peat. |
Turf
(n.) Race course |
Turf
(v. t.) To cover with turf or sod |
Wood-layer
(n.) A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges. |
Zone
(n.) A girdle |
Zone
(n.) One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature. |
Zone
(n.) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes |
Zone
(n.) A band or stripe extending around a body. |
Zone
(n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything |
Zone
(n.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections. |
Zone
(n.) Circuit |
Zone
(v. t.) To girdle |
| zone fire | artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations |
| turf war | a bitter struggle for territory or power or control or rights, a turf war erupted between street gangs, the president's resignation was the result of a turf war with the board of directors |
| layer | thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells |
| germ layer | (embryology) any of the layers of cells differentiated in embryos following gastrulation |
| layer | a hen that lays eggs |
layer
bed | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance, slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach |
root cellar
cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
traffic island
safety island
safety isle
safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
twilight zone
no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
| erogenous zone | any area of the body especially sensitive to sexual stimulation |
stratum corneum
corneum
horny layer | the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off |
stratum germinativum
stratum basale
malpighian layer
rete Malpighii | the innermost layer of the epidermis |
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 |
bulbar conjunctiva
conjunctival layer of bulb
tunica conjunctiva bulbi | the part of the conjunctiva covering the anterior face of the sclera and the surface epithelium of the cornea |
palpebra conjunctiva
conjunctival layer of eyelids
tunica conjunctiva palpebrarum | the part of the conjunctiva lining the posterior surface of the eyelids, continuous with the bulbar conjunctiva |
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 |
membrane
tissue layer | a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
zone
zona | (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure |
| comfort zone | the temperature range (between anddegrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating |
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 |
level
layer
stratum | an abstract place usually conceived as having depth, a good actor communicates on several levels, a simile has at least two layers of meaning, the mind functions on many strata simultaneously |
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 |
| layer cake | cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting |
| 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 |
solution
root | the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
Antarctic
Antarctic Zone
South Frigid Zone | the region around the south pole: Antarctica and surrounding waters |
Arctic
Arctic Zone
North Frigid Zone | the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole |
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 |
| zone | an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic |
| zone geographical zone | any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude |
| climatic zone | any of the geographical zones loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude |
| zone of interior | the part of the theater of war not included in the theater of operations |
Frigid Zone
polar zone
polar region | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole, characterized by frigid climate |
benthos
benthic division
benthonic zone | a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones |
D-layer
D region | the lowest region of the ionosphere ( tomiles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves |
Appleton layer
F layer
F region | the highest region of the ionosphere (fromto miles up) which contains the highest concentration of free electrons and is most useful for longange radio transmission |
Heaviside layer
Kennelly-Heaviside layer
E layer
E region | a region of the ionosphere (fromtomiles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length |
| turf | range of jurisdiction or influence, a bureaucracy...chiefly concerned with turf...and protecting the retirement system |
| layer | a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another |
littoral
litoral
littoral zone
sands | the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean |
loading zone
loading area | a stop where carriers can be loaded and unloaded |