Definition of Radicant

1. a. Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.

Definition of Radicant

1. Adjective. (botany) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Radicant

1. rooting from the stem [adj]

Medical Definition of Radicant

1. Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy. Origin: L. Radicans, p. Pr., cf. F. Radicant. See Radicate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radicant

radicalities
radicality
radicalizable
radicalization
radicalizations
radicalize
radicalized
radicalizes
radicalizing
radically
radicalness
radicalnesses
radicals
radicand
radicands
radicant (current term)
radicate
radicated
radicates
radicating
radication
radications
radicchio
radicchios
radicel
radicels
radices
radices craniales
radices nervi trigemini
radices spinales nervi accessorii

Literary usage of Radicant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"In E. radicant, on the other hand, the leaves are ovate- lanceolate or lanceolate, and with the stem ..."

2. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"All the species are easily increased, by cuttings, t»!id are frequently found in New Liguanea mountains. Scandent radicant ; leaves ovate-roundish, ..."

3. Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1898-1902 by Per Schei, Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo, Nordal Willie (1907)
"Consequently the creeping radicant stolons are developed to a considerably larger extent than in a form from more favorable localities. ..."

4. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"This means of attachment, puts on the nature of the root, in some measure, in the Cissus hederacea or 5-leaved Ivy, as its extremities, like the radicant ..."

5. Odorographia: A Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs Used in the by John Charles Sawer (1894)
"There are two sorts of the root of this plant met with in commerce, the one termed " radicant " and the other " feuillu.'' The last is gathered in a younger ..."

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