ˈradicale Bot. rare.
[In form = L. rādīcāle neut. sing. of rādīcālis radical, but perh. intended for radicle or radicule.]
= radicle.
| 1763 Goldsm. Misc. Wks. (1837) II. 544 The radicale or incipient root,..when shot into the ground, imbibes nourishment from thence. 1847 W. E. Steele Field Bot. 158 A large, many-leaved plumule, and an inferior radicale. |