radicate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8

Definition of radicate

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (rare, transitive)To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
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verb

  1. (rare, transitive)To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To take root; to become established.
    “And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate”
  3. (rare, transitive)To extract the root of a number.
    “Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]”

adj

  1. Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
  2. Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
  3. Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

Anagrams of radicate

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Words you can make from radicate

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6-letter words

16 words

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3-letter words

37 words

2-letter words

17 words

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