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
Yet there is a rather marked tendency of radix to approach the characters of marciana in southwestern Kansas.
From Hybridization Between Two Species of Garter Snakes by Smith, Hobart M.
It happens to him often to make use of a verb for a radix, which has many variations and different significations: but, at this rate, we may form a similitude between terms the most dissimilar.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob
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
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)
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
