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  • noun Plural of radix.

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  • noun Plural form of radix.

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  • The "Type-II" spicules, which McIntosh and De Pontieu have recently dubbed "radices," are hotter, shorter lived and faster moving than their Type-I brethren.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • The "Type-II" spicules, which McIntosh and De Pontieu have recently dubbed "radices," are hotter, shorter lived and faster moving than their Type-I brethren.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • The "Type-II" spicules, which McIntosh and De Pontieu have recently dubbed "radices," are hotter, shorter lived and faster moving than their Type-I brethren.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • The "Type-II" spicules, which McIntosh and De Pontieu have recently dubbed "radices," are hotter, shorter lived and faster moving than their Type-I brethren.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • Si vero, Crateva, inter caeteras herbarum radices, avaritiae radicem secare posses amaram, ut nullae reliquiae essent, probe scito, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • So sweet is the delight of study, the more learning they have (as he that hath a dropsy, the more he drinks the thirstier he is) the more they covet to learn, and the last day is prioris discipulus; harsh at first learning is, radices amarcae, but fractus dulces, according to that of Isocrates, pleasant at last; the longer they live, the more they are enamoured with the Muses.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Magna et populosa Leodij suburbia, ad collium radices, in quorum iugis multa sunt, et pulcherrima monasteria, inter quæ magnificum illud, ac nobile D. Laurentio dicatum, ab Raginardo Episcopo.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Minores etiam arundines nascuntur ad fluuii ripam, habentes in terra radices longitudinis trecentorum cubitorum aut plurium, Ad quarum nodos radicum, inueniuntur gemmæ preciosæ, de quibus expertum est, siquis vnam habuerit in pugno suo, ferrum corpori suo non nocebit: vnde si quis ibi pugnans, petat aduersarium, ac inimicum hac gemma munitum aggreditur eum cum fustibus non ferratis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Insula montes elati in coelum, quorum vertices perpetua niue candent, radices sempiterno igne æstuant.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • In ea etiam in hyeme nusquam pluit, sed in 鎠tate: et tam modicum, quod vix potest aliquando puluerem et radices graminum madidare.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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