radicant

American

[rad-i-kuhnt] / ˈræd ɪ kənt /

adjective

Botany.

rooting from the stem, as ivy.

Etymology

Origin of radicant

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

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For a theoretical frame, he adopts the curator and critic Nicolas Bourriaud’s notion of “radicant” aesthetics—radicant being the botanical term for organisms with no single root, like ivy.

From The New Yorker

Radicant, rooting, taking root on or above the ground.

From Project Gutenberg

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