Root (disambiguation)

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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:

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

• Roots (film) (Spanish: Raíces), 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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, a 1999 album 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 (EP), 2013, by Orla Gartland
• Roots (The Cavemen album), 2020
• Roots, an album by Martin Fröst

• "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" (song), a song by Imagine Dragons
• "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

• Roots (1977 miniseries), based upon the Alex Haley novel
• Roots (2016 miniseries), remake of the 1977 miniseries
• .hack//Roots, a 2006 anime series created by Bee Train
• "The Roots" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a 2016 episode
• "Roots" (Doctors), a 2003 episode
• "Roots" (Get a Life), a 1991 episode
• "Roots" (Haven), a 2011 episode
• "Roots" (One Day at a Time) a 2018 episode

• Root, Inc., an American insurance company
• Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide
• Roots (restaurant), a Michelin starred restaurant in York, in England

• /root, the Unix superuser's home directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
• ROOT, an object-oriented multipurpose data analysis package developed by CERN
• 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

• nth root of a number
  • Root of unity, a complex number which is an nth 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
• 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

• 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

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

• 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
• Root Township, Adams County, Indiana

• 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

• Root of all evil (disambiguation)
• Root cause (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Root
• Rooter (disambiguation)
• Rootes (disambiguation)
• Rooting (disambiguation)
• Radix (disambiguation)
• Rut (disambiguation)
• Solution (disambiguation)