1. The process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
   "The rooting of cuttings is a common method of plant propagation"

1. Take root and begin to grow
   "this plant roots quickly"
    
2. Cause to take roots
   "They rooted the cuttings in water before planting"
    
3. Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
   "After years of moving, they finally took root in a small town";
   - settle, take root, steady down, settle down
    
4. Come into existence, originate
   "The problem roots in her depression"
    
5. Plant by the roots
   "They rooted the young trees in the prepared soil"
    
6. Cheer for
   "She roots for the Broncos"
    
7. Dig with the snout
   "the pig was rooting for truffles";
   - rout, rootle [Brit]
    
8. [Austral, NZ, vulgar] Have sexual intercourse
   - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed [informal], get it on [informal]

Sounds like: rooter, rooting, r

Derived forms: rootings

Type of: back up, become, copulate, couple, cut into, delve [archaic], development, dig, grow, growing, growth, mate, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, pair, plant, set, stabilise [Brit], stabilize, support, turn over

Encyclopedia: Rooting