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A root is the part of a plant that most often lies below the surface of the soil but can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.

Root or roots may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

• Roots (film), a 1955 Mexican drama
• The Root (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture
• The Roots, a location in the video game Kya: Dark Lineage
• Roots, the English title for the Tamil film Sethum Aayiram Pon (2019)

Literature and stage plays

• Koreni (novel) (English: The Roots), by Serbian author Dobrica Cosic
• Roots (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

• 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 (album), 1999, 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 (Orla Gartland album), 2013
• 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" (Imagine Dragons song)
• "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

Television

• .hack//Roots, a 2006 anime series created by Bee Train
• "Roots", a 1990 episode of the American television sitcom Get a Life
• "Roots" (Haven), a television episode
• Root Sports, a sports television network in the United States
• "Root", code name of a fictional hacker in the TV series Person of Interest
• Roots (1977 miniseries), based upon the novel
• Roots: The Next Generations, a 1979 sequel miniseries also based upon the novel
• Roots: The Gift, a 1988 television film set between the second and third episodes of the original miniseries
• Roots (2016 miniseries), a remake of the 1977 miniseries
• "Roots", an episode of the television series One Day at a Time

Businesses

• Root, Inc., an American insurance company
• Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide

Computing

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

• The 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
• Root of a polynomial, a zero of the corresponding polynomial function
• 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

Parts of objects

• Root of the hair
• Root of penis
• Wing root, an aircraft part
• The root of a mountain, in orogeny
• The bottom part of a tooth

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, Estonian veterinarian
• Byron Root White (1829-1924), American dentist and American Civil War veteran

Places

• Root, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lucerne

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 River (Minnesota)
• Root River (Wisconsin)

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 cause, the initiating cause of a condition

See also

• Radix (disambiguation)
• Rootes (disambiguation)
• Rooting (disambiguation)
• Root of all evil (disambiguation)
• Rut (disambiguation)
• Solution (disambiguation)