Roots store food, like underground pantries.

Meaning: This sentence is comparing the roots of a plant to pantries. It is saying that the roots store food for the plant to use later, just like pantries store food for people to use later.

Choice of Words: Store means to keep something in a place for future use. Food is what people and animals eat to live and grow. Like means similar to or resembling. Underground means below the surface of the ground. Pantries are rooms or cupboards where food is stored.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• Roots store food, like squirrels store nuts.
• Roots connect plants, like underground networks.
• Pollen pantries
• Tree roots reach deep underground.
• The roots reached deep underground.
• Roots store food for plant.
• The diligent ants carried food to their underground colony.
• Worker ants carry food to their underground home.
• Ants build nests underground.
• Animals found shelter underground.