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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
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Definition of Radicant
1. rooting from the stem [adj]
Medical Definition of Radicant
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Radicant
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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