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. |
Colt's tooth () See under Colt. |
Fore tooth () One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth |
Lion's tooth () See Leontodon. |
Postpositive (a.) Placed after another word |
Resection (n.) The act of cutting or paring off. |
Resection (n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation. |
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 |
Tooth (n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. |
Tooth (n.) Fig.: Taste |
Tooth (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office |
Tooth (n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. |
Tooth (n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk. |
Tooth (n.) An angular or prominence on any edge |
Tooth (n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome. |
Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food |
Tooth (v. t.) To furnish with teeth. |
Tooth (v. t.) To indent |
Tooth (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
tooth | a means of enforcement, the treaty had no teeth in it |
resection | surgical removal of part of a structure or organ |
transurethral resection of the prostate TURP | removal of significant amounts of prostate tissue (as in cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia) |
tooth shell tusk shell | any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing |
bleeding tooth Nerita peloronta | gastropod having reddish toothlike projections around the shell opening, of the Caribbean area |
tooth | toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
houndstooth check hound's-tooth check dogstooth check dogs-tooth check dog's-tooth check | textile with a pattern of small broken or jagged checks |
mouse-tooth forceps | a type of forceps |
root cellar cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
tooth | something resembling the tooth of an animal |
tooth | one of a number of uniform projections on a gear |
tooth powder toothpowder | a dentifrice in the form of a powder |
tooth | hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates, used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense |
carnassial tooth | the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore, having sharp edges for cutting flesh |
tooth socket alveolus | a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth |
front tooth anterior | a tooth situated at the front of the mouth, his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors |
back tooth posterior | a tooth situated at the back of the mouth |
malposed tooth | a tooth that has grown in a faulty position |
permanent tooth adult tooth | any of the teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age |
primary tooth deciduous tooth baby tooth milk tooth | one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one ofin children) |
canine canine tooth eyetooth eye tooth dogtooth cuspid | one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars |
wisdom tooth | any of the last teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaw, the last of the permanent teeth to erupt (between ages and ) |
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 |
enamel tooth enamel | hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth |
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 |
sweet tooth | a strong appetite for sweet food |
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 |
tooth fairy | a fairy that is said to leave money at night under a child's pillow to compensate for a baby tooth falling out |
ancestor ascendant ascendent antecedent root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
dentist tooth doctor dental practitioner | a person qualified to practice dentistry |
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 |