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  • noun Plural form of radicle.

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  • Guthrie, in 1860, trying to throw light on some theoretical aspects of organic chemistry, examining the nature of certain so-called radicles or groups of atoms, came across a family of compounds of which mustard gas, or B: B dichlordiethylsulphide, was a member.

    The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ... 1921

  • Page view page image: radicles which issue from every part of its surface; one of these roots or a collected bead of them will send forth from

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • Page view page image: arm and covered with innumerable black coarce capillary radicles which issue from every pa [r] t of it's surface; one of those roots or a collected bed of them will send fourth from twenty to forty of those common footstalks all of which decline or bend outwards from the common center. these ribs are cylindric and marked longitudinally their whole length with a groove or channel on their upper side. on either side of this grove a little below it's edge, the leafets are inserted, being shortly petiolate for about 2/3ds. of the length of the middle rib commencing at the bottom and from thence to the extremity sessile. the rib is terminated by a single undivided lanceolate gagged [jagged] leafet. the leafets are lanceolate, from 2 to 4

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • Somewhat flat on two Sides about the Size of a man's arm and covered with innumerable black coarse capillary radicles which issue from every part of its surface; one of those roots or a collected bead of them will Send forth from 20 to 40 of those Common footstalks all of which decline or bend outwards from the Common center. those ribs are cylindric and marked longitudinally their whole length with a groove or channel on their upper Side. on either Side of this groove a little below it's edge, the leafets are inserted, being partly petiolate for about 2/3ds of the length of the middle rib, commenceing at the bottom and from thence to the extremity Sessile. the rib is termonated by a

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • - The large farn, rises to the height of 3 or four feet the stem is a common footstalk or rib which proceedes immediately from the radix wich is somewhat flat on two sides about the size of a man's arm and covered with innumerable black coarce capillary radicles which issue from every pat of it's surface; one of those roots or a collected bed of them will send fourth from twenty to forty of those common footstalks all of which decline or bend outwards from the common center. these ribs are cylindric and marked longitudinally their whole length with a groove or channel on their upper side. on either side of this grove a little below it's edge, the leafets are inserted, being shortly petiolate for about 2/3 ds of the length of the middle rib commencing at the bottom and from thence to the extremity sessile. the rib is terminated by a single undivided lanceolate gagged leafet. the leafets are lanceolate, from 2 to 4 inches in length gagged and have a small accute angular projection on the upper edge near the base where it is spuar on the side which has the projection and obliquely cut at the base on the other side of the rib of the leafet. or which will give a better idea in this form. the upper surface is Smooth and of a deep green the under disk of a pale green and covered with a brown bubersence of a woolly appearance particularly near the cental fiber or rib. these leafets are alternately pinnate. they are in number from 110 to 140; shortest at the two extremities of the common footstalk and longest in the center, graduly lengthening and deminishing as they succeed each other.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Whole battalions of living mangrove radicles fall into the rivers during February and March.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The Christian Infinite, reached by a process of abnegation, a process of being absorbed, dissolved, diffused into the great Not-Self, supplanted the old pagan Infinite, wherein the self like a root threw out branches and radicles which embraced the whole universe, became the Whole.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • Its radicles resemble pipe-stems, or as they lie stranded on the beach, slightly curved and with the brown tapering calyx tube attached, green snakes with pointed beads.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • He attributes this union to the blending of two radicles, and applies the term

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • The question of the formation of colour lakes is one connected with the molecular constitution of the colouring matter, but much yet remains to be done before the proper functions and mode of action of the various groups or radicles in the dye-stuffs can be definitely stated.

    The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

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