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
“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
He introduced the use of radix chinae, a kind of smilax related to sarsaparilla, and put lignum guiaci into the pharmacology of the day.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.
That word which is turned in our English books, they lie, cometh from the radix schachav, which in Pagnin's lexicon is turned dormire.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
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
I took pleasure in finding out the roots or radixes of words, and from time to time I added foreign dictionaries to my little library.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel
