RADICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radicle mean? 

• RADICLE (noun)
  The noun RADICLE has 1 sense:

1. (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve)

  Familiarity information: RADICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("radicle" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Holonyms ("radicle" is a part of...):

nerve; nervus (any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body)