Walking along the road to town I'd pass men and women bent over in the fields digging potatoes or carrots and a starchy root called dasheen.

She was writing a book about her roots called The Ancestral Voices.

The necklace is filled with an extract from a sacred root called bolan gawana which she claims that the ancients used to repel away evil spirits.

There are vertical roots called pneumatophores projecting from the mud.

They attach to their host plant by parasitic roots called haustoria.

The plant has tuberous roots called caudex, which means swollen succulent roots.

In any case, we must reply: No, Sire, we know nothing of the properties the Aztec ascribes to the root called barbasco.

Secondary - roots forming off of the primary root, often called branch roots.

His doppelganger took a pipe from his breeches and stuffed it with a finely ground root called hebac.

One other defining ingredient in Veracruz cooking is the use of starchy tropical roots, called viandas.