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achi, rachia, rachio, rachis, -rachis Greek a spine; the backbone<br />

Racomitrium from Greek rhakos, rag or remnant, and mitra, turban, referring to calyptra (the hood of the<br />

sporecase in mosses) frazzled or lobed at base<br />

raddeanus for Gustav Radde (1831-1903), German naturalist<br />

radens circular.<br />

radfordii No Jim, this is not one letter short of a town in Stark County.<br />

radi, radia, radiat, radio Latin a spoke, ray, radius<br />

radia, radio- rayed, radiate<br />

radialis radiating, as from a center, as a ray.<br />

radian Latin shining<br />

radians radiating, as from a center, as a ray.<br />

radiatiformis when florets of Compositae increase in length outward.<br />

radiatus -a -um radiate, rayed, <strong>with</strong> rays, ray-like, radiating in form, from Latin radius, a ray, spoke of a<br />

wheel, in Carex radiata for the radially spreading perigynia<br />

radiatim Latin adverb radiately from radiatus, rayed, from radius, spoke or ray.<br />

radic, radica, radici, radicl, radicul Latin a root<br />

radic- referring to a root, radic-, radix, root<br />

radicalis rising from the root, from radix, a root.<br />

radicans (RAH-di-kanz) <strong>with</strong> stems that usually form roots, rooting particularly of stems and leaves.<br />

radicantissimus rooting very extensively.<br />

radicatus -a -um radica'tus (rad-i-KAY-tus) having roots, possessing a tap root.<br />

radicaulis -is -e from , and Latin noun caulis, caulis m., from the Greek καυλος, kaulos, the stem or stalk<br />

of a plant; usual spelling was colis or coles, or kaulos, the shaft.<br />

radicicolous bearing flowers on the crown of the root.<br />

radiciformis of the nature or appearrance of a root.<br />

radicinus having many roots.<br />

Radicitus, comes! Really rad, dude!<br />

radicosus many-rooted<br />

Radicula a rootlet, see also radix, radicis f. radish, Raphanus sativus, Celsus, Horace.<br />

radiculosus bearing rootlets.<br />

radiculus little root<br />

radiculatus bearing rootlets.<br />

radicum of roots<br />

radiiflorus bearing ray-like flowers, from and flos, floris, flower..<br />

radio Latin ray; wireless; the radius of the arm<br />

radiosus <strong>with</strong> many rays; radiant.<br />

radix Latin a root<br />

radix, radicis f. radish, Raphanus sativus see also Radicula, Celsus, Horace.<br />

radix dulce liquorice Celsus.<br />

Radix lecti. Couch potato.<br />

radix pontica Turkey rhubarb, Rheum Ponticum, from Celsus.<br />

radix pyrethri pellitory 'of Spain', Spanish camomile, Anacyclus pyrethrum (L.), from North Africa,<br />

Barbarry.<br />

radul-, radula, -radula a scraper, from classical Latin rādula scraper, scraping iron, from rādere to scrape.<br />

radula rough, like a scraper, also the rough, rasping, chitinous-toothed, tongue-like organ of a gastropod.<br />

Imagine being rasped to death by a pack of wild, carnivorous gastropods. It happens in nature.<br />

raeborrhizus <strong>with</strong> a tail-like root, from , and ῥίζα, rhiza, root.<br />

raena<br />

Rafflesiaceae Rafflesia'ceae (raf-lees-ee-AY-see-ee) plants of the “Corpse Flower” family, a genus of parasitic<br />

plants, from the genus name, Rafflesia, and -aceae, the standardized Latin suffix of plant family names.<br />

Rafinesquia, rafinesquianum, rafinesquii Rafines'quia (raf-in-ES-kee-a) for Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, (or<br />

Rafinesque-Schmaltz) 1783–1840), of French and German parents, long a resident of Sicily, a naturalist and<br />

polymath who traveled widely in nineteenth-century America. Rafinesque named many American plants,<br />

including Ratibida. In his own time he was considered a few bricks shy of a load, his work was often rejected, but<br />

often later accepted.<br />

ragusinus from Ragusa in the Austrian province Dalmatia.

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