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Spikenard :: Spikenard (n.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India..

Radicality :: Radicality (n.) Radicalness; relation to a root in essential nature or principle.

Race :: Race (n.) A root.

Spongiolite :: Spongiole (n.) A supposed spongelike expansion of the tip of a rootlet for absorbing water; -- called also spongelet.

Valerian :: Valerian (n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic..

Tricarballylic :: Tricarballylic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance..

Eradication :: Eradication (n.) The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

Radicle :: Radicle (n.) A rootlet; a radicel.

Comfit :: Comfit (n.) A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection..

Sumless :: Sumbul (n.) The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant..

Radicle :: Radicle (n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle..

Peat :: Peat (n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel..

Lion''s Leaf :: Lion's leaf () A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap..

Radicular :: Radicular (a.) Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant..

Subdiaconate :: Subderivative (n.) A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, friendliness is a subderivative, being derived from friendly, which is in turn a derivative from friend..

Suck :: Suck (v. t.) To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground..

Taproot :: Taproot (n.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.

Radicate :: Radicate (v. i.) To take root; to become rooted.

Arrhizous :: Arrhizous (a.) Destitute of a true root, as a parasitical plant..

Rhizophagous :: Rhizophagous (a.) Feeding on roots; root-eating.

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