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roots
noun as in ancestry
Example Sentences
Should farming interests push to protect and retain the undocumented workers who have toiled in the country’s fields for years and who, in many cases, have families and community roots?
Tromping around in wet gardens can compact your soil, making it hard for tiny roots to grow and water to penetrate deep into the ground.
But Vance is also someone who, after a tough upbringing in an Ohio family with Appalachian roots and sudden fame on the back of a bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, has tried out many different views.
That pride in her Southern roots is evident throughout Southern Get-Togethers and on the KBC menu, where dishes like Snapper Pontchartrain showcase a "perfect marriage of classic, rich cuisine rooted in Southern ingredients."
The bucket hat pictured on his dashboard was more deliberately placed, he admits – a nod to his Welsh roots.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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