radicate

present singular third person radicates · participle present radicating · participle past radicated · past radicated

1. raretransitiveTo cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.

   Synonyms: root, settle, ingrain

2. intransitiveobsoleteTo take root; to become established.

   And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate

   1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC

3. raretransitivearithmeticTo extract the root of a number.

   Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]

   1972, Patrick Meredith, Dyslexia and the individual, page 36

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