radication

1. (botany) The disposition of the roots of a plant.Examples: "radication of plants"; "They had a due diffuſion of their roots on all or both ſides, vvhereby they maintained ſome proportion to their height, in Trees of large radication."; "I recollect no instance at this moment of an 1-locular anther except in Canna, and from its mode of insertion as well as the analogy of other scitamineous anthers, that seems to me rather half an anther, than a whole one: however, the radication, and stipulation fix Sowerbæa immovably near Dianella, as well as the country it comes from"uncountableusually

2. (arithmetic, rare) The process of extracting a number's root.rareuncountableusually