radic-, radi-

(Latin: root)

radicant
radicate (RAY dee kayt") (verb), radicates; radicated; radicating
1. To take root or to become rooted: Sharon planted the small trees deeply and firmly so they would radicate in her garden.
2. To establish firmly: Jerome was able to radicate his memory for his autobiography by keeping diaries over the years.
3. Etymology: from Latin radicare or radicari, "to take root".
radicicole (verb), radicicoles; radicicoled; radicicoling: roots
Growing on or in roots.
radicicolous (adjective), more radicicolous, most radicicolous
Pertaining to the existence of organisms in or on roots.
radiciflorous
Producing flowers from a rootstock or apparently from a root.
radiciform
radicivorous
The eating of roots.
radicle
radicula
radiculalgia (s) (noun) (no pl)
Neuralgia due to irritation of the sensory root of a spinal nerve: Sally's professor told his class that radiculalgia resulted from an affliction of the spinal nerve roots.
radicular
radicule
radiculectomy
radiculitis
radiculoganglionitis