radicant

[rad-i-kuhnt]

adjective

Botany.

1. rooting from the stem, as ivy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of radicant¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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