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n. - (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve).

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  • The round pointed projection was formerly called the radicle, but is now spoken of as the hypocotyl, because it grows below or under the cotyledons.
  • The tip of the radicle is a kind of brain to the whole growing part of the radicle!
  • Does that make me some kind of radicle denialist, sort of like your AAGW label?
  • This ridiculous "radicle" rant reveals its own radical irrelevance.
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