· fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
Hypernym(s): stationariness, immobility, fixedness
· a developed system of roots
Synonym(s): root_system
· the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
Synonym(s): beginning, origin, root, source
Hypernym(s): point