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In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.

Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower, Gray.

The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

Capable of radiating; acting by radiation. Tyndall.

That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a stream radiator.

e principles, or the like: original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party. The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence. Burke.

The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all falsehoods and abuses. F. W. Robertson.

Radicalness; relation to root in essential to a root in essential nature or principle.

In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.

Quality or state of being radical.

Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.

Radicated.

Rooted; specifically:

The process of taking root, or state of being rooted; as, the radication of habits.

A small branch of a root; a rootlet.

Rhizanthous.

Having the nature or appearance of a radix or root.

A rootlet; a radicel.

Of or performance to roots, or the root of a plant.

A radicle.