radiculous

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).

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Meanings

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adjectiveradiculous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableuncommonbiologyOf or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:radiculous.

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adjectiveradiculous (comparative more radiculous, superlative most radiculous)

comparative more radiculous · superlative most radiculous

  1. obsoleterareObsolete spelling of ridiculous.

    The rabbits, the squirrels and the crickets held court, And resolved to pravint all radiculous spourt; […]

    1888(?), Robert Creighton Wright, Echoes from the Blarney Stone and Other Rhymes, page 45
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    […] somebody was laughing at us, and that somebody [was] a very nice young lady, whom we had just parted from in what a Kentuckian would have styled "a most extraordinary and radiculous manner."

    1856, George Douglas Brewerton, The war in Kansas: A rough trip to the border, page 252

Origin

radiculous · adjective

From radicle + -ous.

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radiculous · adjective

Variation of ridiculous.

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APA

radiculous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radiculous

MLA

“radiculous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radiculous. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “radiculous,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/radiculous.

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