Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RAD'I-CLE
RAD'I-CLE, n. [L. radicula, from radix.]
- That part of the seed of a plant which upon vegetating becomes the root. – Encyc.
- The fibrous parts of a root which are renewed every year, and which are the parts that absorb the nutriment from the earth.
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