Definitions for radicle

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radicle rad·i·cle

Spelling: [rad-i-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈræd ɪ kəl/

Radicle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in radicle (acdeilr).

Definitions for radicle

noun

1. Botany. the lower part of the axis of an embryo; the primary root. a rudimentary root; radicel or rootlet.
2. Chemistry. (formerly) radical (def 13).
3. Anatomy. a small rootlike part or structure, as the beginning of a nerve or vein.

Origin of radicle

1665-75; Latin rādīcula small root, equivalent to rādīc- (stem of rādīx) root¹ + -ula -ule

Examples for radicle

The cotyledons are accumbent when they lie with their edges against the radicle, 128.

Give the etymologies of the words icicle, radicle, and radical.

The envelope breaks, the little plant makes its appearance; radicle and stalk come to light.

It consists of one or more seed-leaves or cotyledons, a radicle or young root, and a plumule or young bud.

Also imagine one atom of oxygen with its two hooks outstretched like two arms, and just link one radicle on to each.

The radicle is blunt and is about 3⁄4 mm in length, while the cotyledons are 1⁄2 mm long.

The kind of charge, positive or negative, depends on the nature of the radicle.

The -icle, in icicle, is apparently the same as the -icle in radicle.

The initial stem on which they stand was called the radicle.

radicle or Radicula: that joint of the antenna that is articulated to the head.