A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding. / The process of forming roots. / A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.

present participle of root

plural of rooting

present participle of root for

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse. / (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.

(transitive, intransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout. / (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

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.

To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. / To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings. / To be firmly fixed; to be established.

(intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)

Ancestry. / Beginnings; origin.