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radiculous

radiculous

English

Adjective

radiculous (not comparable)

  1. (botany, medicine, uncommon) Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).
    • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:radiculous.

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Etymology 2

Variation of ridiculous.

Adjective

radiculous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Obsolete spelling of ridiculous
    • 1856, George Douglas Brewerton, The war in Kansas: A rough trip to the border, page 252:
      [] somebody was laughing at us, and that somebody [was] a very nice young lady, whom we had just parted from in what a Kentuckian would have styled "a most extraordinary and radiculous manner."
    • 1888(?), Robert Creighton Wright, Echoes from the Blarney Stone and Other Rhymes, page 45:
      The rabbits, the squirrels and the crickets held court, And resolved to pravint all radiculous spourt; []