radiculous

radiculous

English

Etymology 1

From radicle +‎ -ous.

Adjective

radiculous (not comparable)

1. (botany, medicine, uncommon) Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:radiculous.

See also

• radicular, radical

Etymology 2

Variation of ridiculous.

Adjective

radiculous (comparative more radiculous, superlative most radiculous)

1. (rare) Obsolete spelling of ridiculous
   • 1856, George Douglas Brewerton, The war in Kansas: A rough trip to the border, page 252:

     […] somebody was laughing at us, and that somebody [was] a very nice young lady, whom we had just parted from in what a Kentuckian would have styled "a most extraordinary and radiculous manner."

   • 1888(?), Robert Creighton Wright, Echoes from the Blarney Stone and Other Rhymes, page 45:

     The rabbits, the squirrels and the crickets held court, And resolved to pravint all radiculous spourt; […]