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1. source, provenience, provenance; root, taproot, Bot. radicle, Bot. radix, etiology, derivation, etymon; fountainhead, fount, fountain, head, wellspring, well, spring, rise; base, basis, foundation, fundamental, rudiment, ground.

2. beginning, genesis, alpha, prime, dawn, dawning; incipience, inception, commencement, start, outset, the word "go"; germ, seed, conception, germination, embryo; budding, sprouting, emergence, first flowering, Both Embryol. primordium, aulage; matrix, womb, cradle, hotbed.

3. birth, nativity, parentage; ancestry, extraction, stock, stem, stirps, lineage, line, descent, pedigree, genealogy; family, house; breed, race.