Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Botany The part of a plant embryo that develops into a root.
- noun Anatomy A small structure, such as a fibril of a nerve, that resembles a root.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany:
- noun A rootlet: same as
radicel . - noun Specifically, same as
caulicle : by late writers appropriately restricted to the rudimentary root at the lower extremity of the caulicle. - noun In anatomy and zoology, a little root or root-like part; a radix: as, the radicles of a vein (the minute vessels which unite to form a vein); the radicle of a nerve.
- noun In philology, same as
radical , 1. - noun In chem., same as
radical , 2. - noun In the graptolites, the proximal extension of the virgula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.
- noun A rootlet; a radicel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the
cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of theembryo . - noun botany A
rootlet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The round pointed projection was formerly called the radicle, but is now spoken of as the hypocotyl, because it grows below or under the cotyledons.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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The tip of the radicle is a kind of brain to the whole growing part of the radicle!
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Does that make me some kind of radicle denialist, sort of like your AAGW label?
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This ridiculous "radicle" rant reveals its own radical irrelevance.
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This ridiculous "radicle" rant reveals its own radical irrelevance.
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This ridiculous "radicle" rant reveals its own radical irrelevance.
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The strangest thing is that though her book focuses on the United States and seemingly ‘radicle’ right wingers I can see the things that she talks about.
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The strangest thing is that though her book focuses on the United States and seemingly ‘radicle’ right wingers I can see the things that she talks about.
The Purity Myth 2009
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The strangest thing is that though her book focuses on the United States and seemingly ‘radicle’ right wingers I can see the things that she talks about.
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I know, for those of you on the left this is probably one of the most radicle things you will ever hear and right now every fibre of your being is most likely being challenged. take a seat, have a drink of water but do us all a favour and engage your brain before you demand America cuts aid to Israel.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
travismcdermott commented on the word radicle
1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 3037 The one is called by him (sc. Grew) the Radicle, being that, which, upon the vegetation of the Seed, becomes the Root.
July 20, 2008
tankhughes commented on the word radicle
Radical! #RandomWord
May 20, 2022