Equivalent to 'waking up' from sleep or dormancy.
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This is a great bit—especially since his spelling it this way has got to be 100% intentional. What software autocorrects to "radicle"?
Thanks Jonathan for teaching most of us including me a rad new word :p it looks like it ought to mean little root, and it does.
Just for fun your definition inspired me to check etymonline.com, my go-to nerdsite. For anyone interested, enjoy:
radicle (n.)
1670s, in botany, "rootlet, part of the embryo of a plant which develops into the primary root," from Latin radicula, diminutive of radix "root" (from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root"). Anatomical sense of "branch of a nerve, vein, etc. resembling a root" is by 1830.
Entries linking to radicle
wrād- (Proto-Indo-European root meaning "branch, root.")
Fun Rad Words
It forms all or part of: deracinate; eradicate; eradication; irradicable; licorice; radical; radicant; radicle; radicular; radish; ramada; ramify; ramus; rhizoid; rhizome; rhizophagous; root; rutabaga; wort.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Greek rhiza, Lesbian (sic :) brisda "root," Greek hradamnos "branch;" Latin radix) "root, radish;" Gothic waurts, Old English wyrt; Welsh gwraidd, Old Irish fren "root." radicular (adj.)
"belonging to, pertaining to, or affecting roots; characterized by the presence of radicles," by 1815, from radicle or else from Modern Latin radicula, diminutive of Latin radix "root" (from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root") + -ar.
Way too much info :)
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Equivalent to 'waking up' from sleep or dormancy.
Upvoted
This is a great bit—especially since his spelling it this way has got to be 100% intentional. What software autocorrects to "radicle"?
Thanks Jonathan for teaching most of us including me a rad new word :p it looks like it ought to mean little root, and it does.
Just for fun your definition inspired me to check etymonline.com, my go-to nerdsite. For anyone interested, enjoy:
radicle (n.)
1670s, in botany, "rootlet, part of the embryo of a plant which develops into the primary root," from Latin radicula, diminutive of radix "root" (from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root"). Anatomical sense of "branch of a nerve, vein, etc. resembling a root" is by 1830.
Entries linking to radicle
wrād- (Proto-Indo-European root meaning "branch, root.")
Fun Rad Words
It forms all or part of: deracinate; eradicate; eradication; irradicable; licorice; radical; radicant; radicle; radicular; radish; ramada; ramify; ramus; rhizoid; rhizome; rhizophagous; root; rutabaga; wort.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Greek rhiza, Lesbian [sic] brisda "root," Greek hradamnos "branch;" Latin radix) "root, radish;" Gothic waurts, Old English wyrt; Welsh gwraidd, Old Irish fren "root." radicular (adj.)
"belonging to, pertaining to, or affecting roots; characterized by the presence of radicles," by 1815, from radicle or else from Modern Latin radicula, diminutive of Latin radix "root" (from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root") + -ar.
Way too much info :)
/wordnerd
Equivalent to 'waking up' from sleep or dormancy.
Upvoted
This is a great bit—especially since his spelling it this way has got to be 100% intentional. What software autocorrects to "radicle"?
Thanks Jonathan for teaching most of us including me a rad new word :p it looks like it ought to mean little root, and it does.
Just for fun your definition inspired me to check etymonline.com, my go-to nerdsite. For anyone interested, enjoy:
radicle (n.)
1670s, in botany, "rootlet, part of the embryo of a plant which develops into the primary root," from Latin radicula, diminutive of radix "root" (from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root"). Anatomical sense of "branch of a nerve, vein, etc. resembling a root" is by 1830.
Entries linking to radicle
wrād- (Proto-Indo-European root meaning "branch, root.")
Fun Rad Words
It forms all or part of: deracinate; eradicate; eradication; irradicable; licorice; radical; radicant; radicle; radicular; radish; ramada; ramify; ramus; rhizoid; rhizome; rhizophagous; root; rutabaga; wort.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Greek rhiza, Lesbian brisda "root," Greek hradamnos "branch;" Latin radix) "root, radish;" Gothic waurts, Old English wyrt; Welsh gwraidd, Old Irish fren "root." radicular (adj.)
"belonging to, pertaining to, or affecting roots; characterized by the presence of radicles," by 1815, from radicle or else from Modern Latin radicula, diminutive of Latin radix "root" (from PIE root *wrād- "branch, root") + -ar.
Way too much info :)
/wordnerd