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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
茹	rú	to eat / (extended meaning) to endure / putrid smell / vegetables / roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
蔉	gǔn	to bank up the roots of plants
紫草	zǐ cǎo	red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
草根	cǎo gēn	grass roots (lit. and fig.)
苦参	kǔ shēn	liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
寻根	xún gēn	to seek one's roots / to get to the bottom of a matter
远志	yuǎn zhì	far-reaching ambition / lofty ideal / milkwort (Polygala myrtifolia), with roots used in Chinese medicine
壅	yōng	to obstruct / to stop up / to heap soil around the roots of a plant
落地生根	luò dì shēng gēn	air plant (Bryophyllum pinnatum) / to put down roots
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
除根	chú gēn	to root out / to eliminate the roots / to cure once and for all
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
草民	cǎo mín	the grass roots / the hoi polloi
连根拔	lián gēn bá	to pull up by the roots / to uproot
归根	guī gēn	to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots
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
盘根错节	pán gēn cuò jié	twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
忘本	wàng běn	to forget one's roots