radix

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Two products - a galangal powder common in Asian cuisine and a radix aconiti kusnezoffii powder traditionally used in Chinese medicine - have been pulled off retail shelves.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2022

A variation of Raddix — radix — is a mathematical term for the basis of a system of numeration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020

“Radical” comes from the Latin radix, or “root.”

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2018

Radish also comes from radix - though its route into English is uncertain.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2015

Two families started off—one might say simultaneously—from the same radix, for the difference in point of years was but that which naturally divided the father and the son.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)