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斩草除根	zhǎn cǎo chú gēn	to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely
落地生根	luò dì shēng gēn	air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots
自下而上	zì xià ér shàng	(idiom) from bottom to top; from the grass roots up; bottom-up
忘本	wàng běn	to forget one's roots
树高千丈，叶落归根	shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn	fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
紫草	zǐ cǎo	red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
寻根	xún gēn	to seek one's roots / to get to the bottom of a matter
茹	rú	to eat / (extended meaning) to endure / putrid smell / vegetables / roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
壅	yōng	to obstruct / to stop up / to heap soil around the roots of a plant
树根	shù gēn	tree roots
刨根问底	páo gēn wèn dǐ	to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
落叶归根	luò yè guī gēn	lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
藕断丝连	ǒu duàn sī lián	lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another
草民	cǎo mín	the grass roots / the hoi polloi
草根	cǎo gēn	grass roots (lit. and fig.)
连根拔	lián gēn bá	to pull up by the roots / to uproot
荄	gāi	roots of plant
远志	yuǎn zhì	far-reaching ambition / lofty ideal / milkwort (Polygala myrtifolia), with roots used in Chinese medicine
剪草除根	jiǎn cǎo chú gēn	lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch / to eradicate
盘根错节	pán gēn cuò jié	twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties