Roots vs. Heritage — What's the Difference?

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.

Property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance

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

A special or individual possession; an allotted portion

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

Christians, or the ancient Israelites, seen as God's chosen people.

The bottom or supporting part of something

Property that is or can be inherited; an inheritance.

The essential part or element; the basic core

Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition.

A primary source; an origin.

The status acquired by a person through birth; a birthright

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

A domesticated animal or a crop of a traditional breed, usually not widely produced for commercial purposes.

Often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society

An inheritance; property that may be inherited.

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

A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.

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.

A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.

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

(attributive) Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.

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.

That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

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

A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.

A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.

Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition;

The note from which a chord is built.

Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors;

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

That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

To grow roots or a root

Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property

To become firmly established or settled

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

To establish or settle firmly

To be the source or origin of

To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out

To remove or get rid of. Often used with out

To turn up by digging with the snout or nose

To cause to appear or be known. Used with out

To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.

To search or rummage for something

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

To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone

Plural of root

Ancestry.

Beginnings; origin.

The condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage;