Radicle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Botany The part of a plant embryo that develops into a root.
  • n. Anatomy A small structure, such as a fibril of a nerve, that resembles a root.
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  • n. 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.
  • n. A rootlet.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.
  • n. A rootlet; a radicel.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany:
  • n. A rootlet: same as radicel.
  • n. Specifically, same as caulicle: by late writers appropriately restricted to the rudimentary root at the lower extremity of the caulicle.
  • n. In anatomy and zoology, a little root or root-like part; a radix: as, the radicles of a vein (the minute vessels which unite to form a vein); the radicle of a nerve.
  • n. In philology, same as radical, 1.
  • n. In chem., same as radical, 2.
  • n. In the graptolites, the proximal extension of the virgula.
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  • n. (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    structure    anatomical structure    complex body part    body structure    bodily structure   
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    adverse   
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    rootlet    radicel   
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