radix
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Two products - a galangal powder common in Asian cuisine and a radix aconiti kusnezoffii powder traditionally used in Chinese medicine - have been pulled off retail shelves.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022
“Radical” comes from the Latin radix, or “root.”
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2018
Radish also comes from radix - though its route into English is uncertain.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2015
The laxative properties of the Mallow, both as regards its emollient leaves, and its radix altheoe efficacior, were told of by Cicero and Horace.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
The twenty is evidently a ligature of two tens, and this in turn suggested a kind of radix, so that ninety was probably written in a way reminding one of the quatre-vingt-dix of the French.
From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Louis Charles Karpinski
Lond, skip, flaska, sumar, hamar, ketill, dal, are clearly the radices respectively of land, ship, flask, summer, hammer, kettle, dale.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The eldest child very dirty; the second, glands; the third, knock-kneed, pigeon chest; very feeble, enlarged radices.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I took pleasure in finding out the roots or radixes of words, and from time to time I added foreign dictionaries to my little library.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
