Crossword-Solution: TAPROOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Taproot | n. | The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “TAPROOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Carrot feature | 1 answer |
| something that provides an important central source for growth or development | 1 answer |
| Underground plant growth. | 1 answer |
| Plant's principal feeder | 1 answer |
| Plant's primary support | 1 answer |
| Plant's main nourisher | 1 answer |
| Plant's main feeder | 1 answer |
| Pine "anchors" (2 wds) | 1 answer |
| It grows downward | 1 answer |
| Downward-growing plant part | 1 answer |
| Certain plant anchor | 1 answer |
| Carrot, basically | 1 answer |
| Carrot's principal feeder | 1 answer |
| Carrot classification | 1 answer |
| Carrot, for one | 2 answers |
| Carrot, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Parsnip, e.g. | 3 answers |
| Part of a plant. | 8 answers |
| CARROT RELATIVE | 10 answers |
| CUTTER CARROT | 10 answers |
| CARROT SOURCE | 10 answers |
| DANGLE A CARROT | 12 answers |
| Tree part | 14 answers |
| tuber | 18 answers |
| Plant part | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TAPROOT (5)
Britain is altogether small, the mere taproot of her extended empire: Scotland, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous.
These aged things have on them the dew of man’s morning; they lie near, not so much to us, the semi-artificial flowerets, as to the trunk and aboriginal taproot of the race.
Directly or indirectly, the desire for money, which then meant every good thing, was the motive of all this crime, the taproot of a vast poison growth, which the machinery of law, courts, and police could barely prevent from choking your civilization outright.
They may tug in line at your hempen twine, They may flourish with axe and saw; But your taproot drinks of the Sacred Springs In the living rock of Law.
There is a supreme faith among common people--it is, indeed, the very taproot of democracy--that although the unfriendly one may persist long in his power and arrogance, there is a moving Force which commands events.
Quotes with TAPROOT (3)
And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …
Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance... the taproot... the killer's ultimate and truest motivation... is the hatred of truth... the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.
[The] dinner party is a true proclamation of the abundance of being -- a rebuke to the thrifty little idolatries by which we lose sight of the lavish hand that made us. It is precisely because no one needs soup fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever. The unnecessary is the taproot of our being and the last key to the door of delight. E…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1944–2020).