tree root
Underground plant feeder
The underground portion of a tree that anchors it in soil and absorbs water and nutrients.
Tree roots spread wide rather than deep, often extending beyond the canopy's reach.
They can buckle sidewalks, invade pipes, and destabilize foundations.
In computing, a tree root is the topmost node in a hierarchical data structure—the point from which all branches descend.
- taprootMain descending root
- soilGround matter for planting
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
- nutrientLife-sustaining substance
groundwater · tap into · trunk · growth · old growth · burrow · dig · tendrils · earth · foundation · buried · woody · fibrous · spreading · deep · absorb · mycorrhizae · stumps
- branchingbranching, dendrite, dendrites, dendritic, antler
- rootstaproot, radicle, zeros, solutions, eigenvalues
- forest trailstrail, trails, hiking trail, dirt trail, nature trail
- tree structuressubtree, leaf, sibling, preorder, rebalancing
- animal densburrow, den, warren, hole, lair