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:

Art, entertainment, and media

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

Films

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

Literature and stage plays

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

Music

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

Groups and individuals

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

Albums and EPs

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

Songs

"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

Television

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

Businesses

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

Computing

/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

Mathematics

$n$ th root of a number
- Root of unity, a complex number which is an $n$ th 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

People

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

Places

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

United States

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

Other uses

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