Definitions for taproot

taproot tap·root

Spelling: [tap-root, -roo t]
IPA: /ˈtæpˌrut, -ˌrʊt/

Taproot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in taproot (aooprtt).

Definitions for taproot

noun

  1. a main root descending downward from the radicle and giving off small lateral roots.

Origin of taproot

First recorded in 1595-1605; tap2 + root1

Examples for taproot

Some of them had sent down a taproot nearly or quite three inches in length.

By the following autumn, the better seedlings will have ten or twelve inches of top, and two and a half or three feet of taproot.

In normally developed trees of the same age, the taproot would have been three or four feet long.

Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high.

taproot: the main root of a plant, which runs directly down into the earth to a considerable depth without dividing.

And one of these was respect for authority, the loss of which was the taproot of Bolshevism.

Furthermore, without doubt, one of these roots would have grown so as to replace the taproot.

No tree can grow in it, for the moment the taproot touches the Black Ram the tree dies.

Here, in the City of London, was the taproot from which Empire and wealth and so many other fine leaves had sprouted.

The root of evil, the taproot from which the evils of modern society develop, is the profit idea.

Word Value for taproot
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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