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A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients.

Root or roots may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

* ''The Root'' (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture
* The Roots, a location in the video game '' Kya: Dark Lineage''

Films

* ''Roots'' (film) ( es, Raíces, link=no), a 1955 Mexican drama
* ''Poor Relatives'', also released as ''Roots'', a 2005 Russian film
* ''Roots'', the English title for the 2019 Tamil film '' Sethum Aayiram Pon''

Literature and stage plays

* ''Koreni'' (novel) (English: ''The Roots''), a 1954 novel by Serbian author Dobrica Ćosić
* ''Roots'' (play), a 1958 play by Arnold Wesker
* '' Roots: The Saga of an American Family'', a 1976 novel by Alex Haley about slavery in the United States

Music

* Root (chord), the fundamental note of a chord
* Roots music (disambiguation)

Groups and individuals

* Root (band), a Czech metal band
* Root (singer), a Japanese singer
* Root!, an Australian alt-country band
* The Roots, a hip-hop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Albums and EPs

* ''Roots'' (Idrees Sulieman album), 1958
* ''Roots'' (The Everly Brothers album), 1968
* ''Roots'' (Curtis Mayfield album), 1971
* '' Roots: John Lennon Sings the Great Rock & Roll Hits'', 1975
* ''Roots'' (Slide Hampton album), 1985
* ''Roots'' (Sepultura album), 1996
* ''Roots'' (Cedar Walton album), 1997
* ''Root'' (album), 1999, by Thurston Moore
* ''Roots'' (Blue Mountain album), 2001
* ''Roots'' (Shawn McDonald album), 2008
* '' R.O.O.T.S.'', a 2009 album by Flo Rida
* ''Roots'' (Johnny Winter album), 2011
* ''Roots'' (Orla Gartland EP), 2013
* ''Roots'' (The Cavemen album), 2020
*''Roots'', an album by Martin Fröst

Songs

* "Root", a song by Deftones on the 1995 album ''Adrenaline''
* "The Root", a song by D'Angelo, on the 2000 album ''Voodoo''
* "Roots", by the band Spunge on their 2002 album ''The Story So Far''
* "Roots", a song on the 2006 Show of Hands album ''Witness''
* "Roots" (Imagine Dragons song)
* "Roots", a 2016 song by the band Parmalee
* "Roots", by the band In This Moment on their 2017 album ''Ritual''
* "Roots (World Junior Song)", a 2018 by The Reklaws
* "Roots", a 2019 song by Galantis and Valerie Broussard
* "R.O.O.T.S.", a 2009 song by Flo Rida

Television

* '' .hack//Roots'', a 2006 anime series created by Bee Train
* "Roots", a 1990 episode of the American television sitcom '' Get a Life''
* "Roots" (''Haven''), a television episode
* Root Sports, a sports television network in the United States
* "Root", code name of a fictional hacker in the TV series ''Person of Interest''
* ''Roots'' (1977 miniseries), based upon the novel
* '' Roots: The Next Generations'', a 1979 sequel miniseries also based upon the novel
* '' Roots: The Gift'', a 1988 television film set between the second and third episodes of the original miniseries
* ''Roots'' (2016 miniseries), a remake of the 1977 miniseries
* "Roots", an episode of the television series ''One Day at a Time''

Businesses

* Root, Inc., an American insurance company
* Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide

Computing

* /root, the Unix superuser's home directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
* ROOT, an object-oriented multipurpose data analysis package
* root, a name for the superuser account in some operating systems
* Root directory, the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy
* Root node, the node in a tree data structure from which every other node is accessible
* ROOTS (software), a series of genealogy programs

Mathematics

* th root of a number
** Root of unity, a complex number which is an th root of one
* Root of an equation, a solution of the equation
* Root of a function, more meaningfully called ''zero of a function'', an argument for which the function evaluates to zero
* Root of a polynomial, a zero of the corresponding polynomial function
* Digital root, the sum of a number's digits
* Any of the elements of a root system of vectors
* One designated vertex of a rooted tree in graph theory
* The root or base of a number system

Parts of objects

* Root of the hair
* Root of penis
* Wing root, an aircraft part
* The root of a mountain, in orogeny
* The bottom part of a tooth

People

* Root (surname), a family name
* Roots Manuva (born 1972), British rapper
* Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer, also known as "Roots"
* Root, Japanese singer from Strawberry prince
* Elmar Roots (1900-1962), Estonian veterinarian
* Byron Root Pierce (1829-1924), American dentist and American Civil War veteran

Places

* Root, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lucerne
* Root River (disambiguation)

United States

* Roots, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Henrietta Township, Jackson County
* Root, New York, a town in Montgomery County
* Roots, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place in Blair County

Other uses

* ''Root'' (board game), a game published by Leder Games
* Root (Chinese constellation)
* Root (linguistics), the core form of a word
* Roots, one's cultural heritage
* Root, Australasian slang for sexual intercourse

See also

* Root of all evil (disambiguation)
* Root cause (disambiguation)
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* Rooter (disambiguation)
* Rootes (disambiguation)
* Rooting (disambiguation)
* Radix (disambiguation)
* Rut (disambiguation)
* Solution (disambiguation)

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