radiculousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

radiculous (not comparable)

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

参考

• radicular, radical

語源 2

Variation of ridiculous.

形容詞

radiculous (comparative more radiculous, superlative most radiculous)

1. (まれに) 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; […]