- plural of radix.
radices
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The eldest child very dirty; the second, glands; the third, knock-kneed, pigeon chest; very feeble, enlarged radices.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Lond, skip, flaska, sumar, hamar, ketill, dal, are clearly the radices respectively of land, ship, flask, summer, hammer, kettle, dale.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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