A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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root
The underground structure of a plant — the part that anchors, absorbs water and minerals, stores energy, and communicates with neighboring plants through fungal networks. Most of a forest’s activity happens at the root level, invisibly. Some root systems are older than any visible part of the tree.
Etymology
Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic wrōt-, from the ancient root wrād- (branch, root). Related to Latin radix (root), which gives us radical.