root up's Usage Examples:

Southern Appalachia but are considered a nuisance due to their tendency to root up and destroy plants.

due to the arrival of non-indigenous animals; they use their noses to ‘root up’ the nutritious moon-nar tuber (yam daisy); after just a year it was noticed.

gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

Feral pigs pose the most serious threat as they root up iguana nests, and like most Cyclura species, the Mona ground iguana nests.

Moore, John Clare, Pope Innocent III (1160/61–1216): to root up and to plant, BRILL, 2003.

Moore, John Clare, Pope Innocent III (1160/61–1216): to root up and to plant, (Brill Publishers, 2003), 70–71.

, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall.

mean either "rush" (vikšris) or "caterpillar" (vikšras) while the second root up- means "river" (upė).

It grows from a large black root up to 3 centimeters in diameter.

Why, too, should he [the reader] grub about The Waste-land to root up the dubious truffles of Mr.

Full-grown larvae bore a hole in the soil, from the root up to the surface.

It is a perennial herb growing from a tuberous root up to 5 centimeters wide and a thin taproot.

Pope Innocent III (1160/61-1216): To root up and to plant.

Synonyms:

adventitious root, taproot, calamus, parsnip, plant organ, cocoyam, rootage, chicory, horseradish root, carrot, bark, mandrake, root cap, mandrake root, licorice root, dasheen, root system, sarsaparilla root, eddo, manioc, rootlet, prop root, horseradish, radish, briarroot, Hottentot bread, salsify, Hottentot's bread, taro, root hair, orris, cassava, ginseng, senega, parenchyma, chicory root, orrisroot, oyster plant, pneumatophore,

Antonyms:

tail, reverse, foot, child, female parent,