Home › Words › U › underrootunderrootunderroot means beneath the roots.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, underroot ranks #3,412 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Middle English underwroten, equivalent to under- + root.adjBeneath the roots.e.g.“Capillary saturated soil layers in relation to water expenditure are to be divided into three parts: 1) the part above the roots, 2) sucking part-active root part and 3) underroot part.” — 1936, Proceedings, page 62:advBeneath the roots.e.g.“It is a rain forest and mucky underroot place where hard land is scarce.” — 1998, Hannah Rachel Bell, Men's Business, Women's Business:nounThe underground root portion of a plant, or a single underground root.e.g.“To my knowledge, this is the only tree, having a Manregian underroot, that has shown blackline.” — 1952, Northern Nut Grower's Association, Annual Report of the Northern Nut Growers Association, page 37:An underlying root or basise.g.“The word Bapt cannot here, any more than elsewhere, explain itself, There is nothing back of it. It has no underroot.” — 1858, Samuel Fuller, Loutron: Or, Water Baptism, page 19:Square root.e.g.“The underroot of the product of two regression coefficients gives us the coefficient of correlation .” — 1981, Paruchuri R. Krishnaiah, A Hand Book of Statistics - Volume 1, page 298:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.outroot 64% match — To eradicate vs underroot →unroot 63% match — To tear up by the roots; to uproot. vs underroot →radicand 62% match — The number or expression whose square root or other root is being considered. vs underroot →subduplicate 59% match — Expressed by the square root; said of ratios. vs underroot →disroot 58% match — To uproot (tear up from the roots). vs underroot →unsquared 57% match — Not squared. vs underroot →nonroot 57% match — That is not a root vs underroot →resquare 56% match — To square again. vs underroot →