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abduction
or female child or ward for the purpose of marriage or sexual intercourse NOTE: Sense 2 has its roots in common law. As statutorily defined, mainly in the nineteenth century, abduction is generally stated to include taking
Deracinate
To pluck up by the roots to extirpate
Diageotropism
The tendency of organs as roots of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth
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Ineradicable
Incapable of being eradicated or rooted out
fire tree
terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree Nuytsia floribunda of West Australia having brilliant yellow orange flowers parasitic on roots of grasses
IAA
Indoleacetic acid a plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots
Hypocist
An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant Cytinus hypocistis growing from the roots of the Cistus a small European shrub
Hydrotropic
Turning or bending towards moisture as roots
Habenaria
A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes it includes species formerly placed in the genus
Galingale
A plant of the Sedge family Cyperus longus having aromatic roots also any plant of the same genus
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