But, one's religious roots and cultural identity sometimes takes precedence over assimilation into American society.

Don't be afraid to cut quite a bit; olive roots can take it.

Plants need their roots especially for three reasons: The roots take water and nutrients, a sort of food, from the soil.

The root, fully six feet long, had eaten its way through a grave and taken on the shape of the man buried there.

Its roots have spread widely and taken all the nourishment from the area around it.

The roots take their time in getting established, and dry soil does not encourage them to develop.

The roots of the site took place in San Francisco in 1998.

There's no need to rush a plant into the ground for fear of stems beginning growth before roots take hold.

If the roots really take hold, they will die back in the fall but re-sprout in the spring.

Another root took a step, then the third, then the first again, and slowly the sapling moved toward the door.