Radicle Definition

rădĭ-kəl
noun
The rootlike beginning of a nerve, vein, etc.
Webster's New World
The lower part of the axis of an embryo seedling; strictly, the root part; often, the hypocotyl, sometimes together with the root.
Webster's New World
A small structure, such as a fibril of a nerve, that resembles a root.
American Heritage Medicine
A rudimentary root.
Webster's New World

(botany) A rootlet.

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Other Word Forms of Radicle

Noun

Singular:
radicle
Plural:
radicles

Origin of Radicle

  • Latin rādīcula diminutive of rādīx rādīc- root wrād- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin radicula.

    From Wiktionary

Radicle Sentence Examples

  • Cotyledons opened to show the radicle a, and the plumule.

  • The embryo consists of an axis bearing two or more cotyledons and ending below in a radicle; it lies in a generally copious food-storing tissue (endosperm) which is the remains of the female prothallus.

  • On germination of the seed the radicle first grows out, increasing in size as a whole, and soon adding to its tissues by cell division at its apical growing-point.

  • The embryo consists of an axis bearing one (Monocotyledons) or two (Dicotyledons) cotyledons, which protect the stem bud (plumule) of the future plant, and ending below in a radicle.

  • Now this ratio is the same as that which gives the relative chemical equivalents of hydrogen and copper, for r gramme of hydrogen and 31.8 grammes of copper unite chemically with the same weight of any acid radicle such as chlorine or the sulphuric group, SO 4.

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Words Starting With

RRARAD

Words Ending With

ELECLE

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Words Starting With R and Ending With E

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With R7 Letter Words Ending With E