Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, rooting; specifically, producing roots from some part other than the descending axis, as for the purpose of climbing. Also
radicating .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the
ivy .
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The term ‘radicant’ refers to plants that root from the stem above ground instead of below; to be radicant, Bourriaud wrote, meant ‘setting one’s roots in motion, staging them in heterogeneous contexts and formats, denying them any value as origins’.
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