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the taproot
noun
A long, tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions).
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Leo Tolstoy claimed that "vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism".
Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high.
The Free Speech Movement is the taproot of a tree with many branches.
From the taproot are produced smaller lateral roots (secondary roots) that grow horizontally or diagonally.
The taproot ranges in shape from globular to long and tapered.
I said, "I really think that I was plugged straight into the taproot of New Orleans culture".
But you can be too angry and too anxious, too cut off from the taproot of your own strong opinions.
Thus, many orders of roots of descending size are produced from a single prominent root, the taproot.
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