radic-, radi-

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".

Growing on or in roots.

Pertaining to the existence of organisms in or on roots.

Producing flowers from a rootstock or apparently from a root.

The eating of roots.

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.