radicant

[ rad-i-kuhnt ]

adjectiveBotany.
  1. rooting from the stem, as ivy.

Origin of radicant

1
1745–55; <Latin rādīcant- (stem of rādīcāns, present participle of rādīcārī to grow roots, take root), equivalent to rādīc- (stem of rādīx) root1 + -ant--ant

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