roots
/ɹuːts/ noun B1- Ancestry. · I have both Irish and German roots.
- Beginnings; origin. · Jazz has its roots in blues.
- Grown-out hair, often of a grey or natural colour. · I just coloured my hair and already my roots are showing.
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Presently Ruby Gillis started up to take a sum to the master; she fell back into her seat with a little shriek, believing that her hair was pulled out by the roots.
The Oak said with a sigh, “I do not care about the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by these wedges made from my own branches.”
As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, “You live here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty.
I prefer my bare plowlands and roots from the hedgerow, where I can live in safety, and without fear.”
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