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Radiculous

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a radicle (nerve root, or rudimentary shoot of a plant from which a root is developed downward). not-comparable, uncommon

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:radiculous."

  2. 2
    Obsolete spelling of ridiculous. alt-of, obsolete, rare

    "[…] 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.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

From radicle + -ous.

Etymology 2

Variation of ridiculous.

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