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English
Etymology 1
From radicle + -ous.
Adjective
radiculous (not comparable)
- (botany, medicine, uncommon) Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward).
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Etymology 2
Variation of ridiculous.
Adjective
radiculous (comparative more radiculous, superlative most radiculous)
- (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;