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Root vs. Cassava — What's the Difference?

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Root

In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They most often lie below the surface of the soil, but roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.

Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names) is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates.

Root

The part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres
Root growth
Cacti have deep and spreading roots
A tree root

Cassava

The starchy tuberous root of a tropical tree, used as food in tropical countries.

Root

The basic cause, source, or origin of something
Money is the root of all evil
Jealousy was at the root of it
The root cause of the problem
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Cassava

The shrubby tree from which cassava is obtained, native to tropical America and cultivated throughout the tropics.

Root

A number or quantity that when multiplied by itself, typically a specified number of times, gives a specified number or quantity.

Cassava

A shrubby tropical American plant (Manihot esculenta) widely grown for its large, tuberous, starchy roots.

Root

A user account with full and unrestricted access to a system
I need to log in as root on my system to resolve an issue
Make sure that these files can only be accessed by the root user

Cassava

The root of this plant, eaten as a staple food in the tropics only after leaching and drying to remove cyanide. Cassava starch is also the source of tapioca. In both senses also called manioc, yuca.

Root

An act of sexual intercourse.

Cassava

Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.

Root

An act of rooting
I had a root through the open drawers

Cassava

Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.

Root

Cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots
Root your own cuttings from stock plants

Cassava

A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; - called also manioc.

Root

Establish deeply and firmly
Vegetarianism is rooted in Indian culture

Cassava

A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.

Root

Cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement
She found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief

Cassava

A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics

Root

Gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer)
We explained how to manually root almost any Android device

Cassava

Cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca

Root

Have sexual intercourse with.

Cassava

Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch

Root

(of an animal) turn up the ground with its snout in search of food
Stray dogs rooting around for bones and scraps

Root

The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.

Root

Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.

Root

The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.

Root

The bottom or supporting part of something
We snipped the wires at the roots.

Root

The essential part or element; the basic core
I finally got to the root of the problem.

Root

A primary source; an origin.

Root

A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.

Root

Often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society
Our roots in this town go back a long way.

Root

Roots The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment
Music with unmistakable African roots.

Root

The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change.

Root

Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.

Root

A number that when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times forms a product equal to a specified number. For example, a fourth root of 4 is √2. Also called nth root.

Root

A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.

Root

A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.

Root

The note from which a chord is built.

Root

Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.

Root

To grow roots or a root
Carrot tops will root in water.

Root

To become firmly established or settled
The idea of tolerance has rooted in our culture.

Root

To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.

Root

To establish or settle firmly
Our love of the ocean has rooted us here.

Root

To be the source or origin of
"Much of [the team's] success was rooted in the bullpen" (Dan Shaughnessy).

Root

To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out
We rooted out the tree stumps with a tractor.

Root

To remove or get rid of. Often used with out
"declared that waste and fraud will be vigorously rooted out of Government" (New York Times).

Root

To turn up by digging with the snout or nose
Hogs that rooted up acorns.

Root

To cause to appear or be known. Used with out
An investigation that rooted out the source of the problem.

Root

To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.

Root

To search or rummage for something
Rooted around for a pencil in his cluttered office.

Root

To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.

Root

To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone
We'll be rooting for you when you take the exam.

Root

The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.

Root

A root vegetable.

Root

The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.

Root

The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.

Root

The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.

Root

(figurative) The primary source; origin.
The love of money is the root of all evil.

Root

(aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.

Root

(engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.

Root

(arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
The cube root of 27 is 3.

Root

(arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
Multiply by root 2.

Root

(analysis) A zero (of an equation).

Root

The single node of a tree that has no parent.

Root

(linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.

Root

(philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.

Root

(music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

Root

The lowest place, position, or part.

Root

(computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
I have to log in as root before I do that.

Root

(computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
I installed the files in the root directory.

Root

(slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.

Root

An act of sexual intercourse.
Fancy a root?

Root

A sexual partner.

Root

To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
The cuttings are starting to root.

Root

To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
We rooted some cuttings last summer.

Root

To be firmly fixed; to be established.

Root

To get root or privileged access on a computer system or mobile phone, often through bypassing some security mechanism.
We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.

Root

(ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
A pig roots the earth for truffles.

Root

(by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

Root

(intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
Rooting about in a junk-filled drawer

Root

(intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.

Root

(transitive) To root out; to abolish.

Root

To sexually penetrate.

Root

To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. See root for.
I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!

Root

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

Root

Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

Root

To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.

Root

To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
In deep grounds the weeds root deeper.

Root

To be firmly fixed; to be established.
If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.

Root

To shout for, or otherwise noisly applaud or encourage, a contestant, as in sports; hence, to wish earnestly for the success of some one or the happening of some event, with the superstitious notion that this action may have efficacy; - usually with for; as, the crowd rooted for the home team.

Root

To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; - used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

Root

To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; - with up, out, or away.
The Lord rooted them out of their land . . . and cast them into another land.

Root

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

An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.

Root

That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people.

Root

A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Root

The time which to reckon in making calculations.
When a root is of a birth yknowe [known].

Root

That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.

Root

The lowest place, position, or part.

Root

(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground

Root

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
Thematic vowels are part of the stem

Root

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

Root

A number that when multiplied by itself some number of times equals a given number

Root

The set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

Root

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Root

A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

Root

The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

Root

Take root and begin to grow;
This plant roots quickly

Root

Come into existence, originate;
The problem roots in her depression

Root

Plant by the roots

Root

Dig with the snout;
The pig was rooting for truffles

Root

Take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for;
We all rooted for the home team
I'm pulling for the underdog
Are you siding with the defender of the title?

Root

Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style;
He finally settled down

Root

Cause to take roots

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