Alum root () A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. |
Channel (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. |
Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels. |
Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands |
Channel (n.) That through which anything passes |
Channel (n.) A gutter |
Channel (n.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. |
Channel (v. t.) To form a channel in |
Channel (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel. |
Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. |
Choy root () See Chay root. |
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 |
distribution channel channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
channel catfish channel cat Ictalurus punctatus | freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
blue catfish blue cat blue channel catfish blue channel cat | a large catfish of the Mississippi valley |
red drum channel bass redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
channel | a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through, the fields were crossed with irrigation channels, gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street |
channel television channel TV channel | a television station and its programs, a satellite TV channel, surfing through the channels, they offer more than one hundred channels |
chunnel Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
root cellar cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
duct epithelial duct canal channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
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 |
channel transmission channel | a path over which electrical signals can pass, a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company |
channel communication channel line | (often plural) a means of communication or access, it must go through official channels, lines of communication were set up between the two firms |
back channel | an alternative to the regular channels of communication that is used when agreements must be made secretly (especially in diplomacy or government), they negotiated via a back channel |
channels | official routes of communication, you have to go through channels |
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 |
solution root | the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
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 |
Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
Channel Island | any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France |
Bristol Channel | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England |
channel | a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels, the ship went aground in the channel |
English Channel | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain |
Mozambique Channel | an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa |
North Channel | a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea |
ancestor ascendant ascendent antecedent root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
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 |
crested coral root Hexalectris spicata | orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins, southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States |
colicroot colic root crow corn star grass unicorn root | any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic |
ague root ague grass Aletris farinosa | colicroot having a scurfy or granuliferous perianth and white flowers, southeastern United States |