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akar



root
root


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akar
     1. n. a root, a part of a plant that generally grow underground to absorbs water and nutrients.
     2. n. a creeping or climbing plant; liana.
     3. n. (figurative) origin or primary source.
     4. n. (of tooth) the part of a tooth that extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
     5. n. (of hair) the part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
     6. n. (Indonesian, arithmetic) of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
     7. n. (linguistic morphology) the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. See akar kata.



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