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Definition of Radicels
1. radicel [n] - See also: radicel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Radicels
Literary usage of Radicels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1876)
"... much greater uniformity in the diameters of the phlox radicels than in those of
... radicels is easily detached by a little rubbing, exposing a smooth, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"... as easily as they go into it; and that they swarm in it to such an extent that
the roots suffer from them, and the radicels are eaten or are very weak. ..."
3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1885)
"... and that in the earlier years of its development, more particularly, it feeds
on the rootlets or radicels, not alone of trees, but of herbaceous plants. ..."
4. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"radicels, little roots or rootlets. Radicle, the stem part of the embryo, the
lower end of which forms the root, 11, 127. ..."
5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"radicels, little roots or rootlets. Radicle, the stem part of the embryo, the
lower end of which forms the root, 11, ..."
6. Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry: Proteolytic Enzymes by Jean Effront (1917)
"To consider now the finished malt, free from its radicels, in place of the whole
germinated grain, we find that in the manner of the preceding experiment, ..."
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