radication

English

Etymology

Compare French radication.

Noun

radication (usually uncountable, plural radications)

1. The process of taking root, or state of being rooted.

   the radication of habits

2. (botany) The disposition of the roots of a plant.
3. (arithmetic, rare) The process of extracting a number's root.

Synonyms

• (process of taking root, or state of being rooted): settlement

Antonyms

• eradication

Related terms

• radicate

Translations

process of taking root, or state of being rooted

• Japanese: 定着 (ja) (teichaku)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “radication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)