different between radiculous vs radicle

English

Etymology 1

From radicle +? -ous.

Adjective

radiculous (not comparable)

1. (botany, medicine, uncommon) Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:radiculous.

See also

• radicular, radical

Etymology 2

Variation of ridiculous.

Adjective

radiculous (comparative more radiculous, superlative most radiculous)

1. (rare) Obsolete spelling of ridiculous
   • 1856, George Douglas Brewerton, The war in Kansas: A rough trip to the border, page 252:

     […] somebody was laughing at us, and that somebody [was] a very nice young lady, whom we had just parted from in what a Kentuckian would have styled "a most extraordinary and radiculous manner."

   • 1888(?), Robert Creighton Wright, Echoes from the Blarney Stone and Other Rhymes, page 45:

     The rabbits, the squirrels and the crickets held court, And resolved to pravint all radiculous spourt; […]

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radicula.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?d??k-?l, IPA^(key): /??æd?k?l/
• Homophone: radical

Noun

radicle (plural radicles)

1. (botany) The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo.
2. (botany) A rootlet.
3. (chemistry) Archaic form of radical.

Related terms

• radix, radical, radiculous

References

• radicle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Cardiel, decrial, radicel