Thesaurus / radix
FEEDBACKsynonyms for radix
synonyms for radix
- essence
- foundation
- heart
- origin
- seed
- soul
- source
- stem
- stuff
- basis
- bedrock
- beginnings
- bottom
- cause
- center
- crux
- derivation
- essentiality
- footing
- fountain
- fountainhead
- fundamental
- germ
- ground
- groundwork
- inception
- infrastructure
- mainspring
- marrow
- motive
- nub
- nucleus
- occasion
- pith
- provenance
- provenience
- quick
- quintessence
- radicle
- reason
- rhizome
- seat
- substance
- substratum
- tuber
- underpinning
- well
- rock bottom
- starting point
antonyms for radix
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How to use radix in a sentence
The root is quite the same as that of the officinal Radix senegæ.
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, 1832-1834, PART III (THE TEXT BEING CHAPTERS XXVIII-XXXIII OF THE LONDON EDITION, 1843, AND THE APPENDIX A COMBINATION OF THE APPENDICES OF THE LONDON AND GERMAN [COBLENTZ, 1839] EDITIONS)MAXIMILIAN, PRINZ VON WIEDThe same radix yataʼ occurs also in the Iroquois name for the opossum, which is a burrowing animal.
MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEEJAMES MOONEYYet there is a rather marked tendency of radix to approach the characters of marciana in southwestern Kansas.
HYBRIDIZATION BETWEEN TWO SPECIES OF GARTER SNAKESHOBART M. SMITHMany modifications of the word by prefixes, to its radix Edo, appear among the cognate dialects.
THE INDIAN IN HIS WIGWAMHENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFTFor an excipient in manipulating a pill mass which do you prefer—the magnesia carbonate or the pulverised glycerrhiza radix?
STRICTLY BUSINESSO. HENRYThe small firn also rises with a common footstalk from the radix and are from four to eight in number.
THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARKMERIWETHER LEWIS AND WILLIAM CLARKBy the way, is radix perhaps derived from (rad), a tooth (from the fang-like form of roots), whence rodere and possibly radius?
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 52, OCTOBER 26, 1850VARIOUSAnd yet, compared with the mystery of man himself, these physical worlds of mystery are but as a radix of infinity.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 56, NUMBER 348VARIOUSThis word appears to be a derivation from the radix Wawb, white.
THE INDIAN IN HIS WIGWAMHENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFTBik, is, apparently, the radix of the expression for “rock.”
THE INDIAN IN HIS WIGWAMHENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFTWORDS RELATED TO RADIX
- basis
- bedrock
- beginnings
- bottom
- cause
- center
- crux
- derivation
- essence
- essentiality
- footing
- foundation
- fountain
- fountainhead
- fundamental
- germ
- ground
- groundwork
- heart
- inception
- infrastructure
- mainspring
- marrow
- motive
- nub
- nucleus
- occasion
- origin
- pith
- provenance
- provenience
- quick
- quintessence
- radicle
- radix
- reason
- rhizome
- rock bottom
- seat
- seed
- soul
- source
- starting point
- stem
- stuff
- substance
- substratum
- tuber
- underpinning
- well
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