radicular
Americanadjective
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Botany. of or relating to a radicle or root.
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Anatomy. of, relating to, or involving a radicle.
Etymology
Origin of radicular
Example Sentences
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Embryo straight, the radicular end downward.—Slender branching herbs, growing under water, with opposite and linear leaves, somewhat crowded into whorls, spinulose-toothed, sessile and dilated at base.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Cotyledons long and narrow, incumbently folded transversely, i.e., the cleft extending to the radicular side of the curvature.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The radicular extremity points towards the micropyle, while the cotyledonary extremity is pointed towards the base of the ovule or the chalaza.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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