radix

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Two products - a galangal powder common in Asian cuisine and a radix aconiti kusnezoffii powder traditionally used in Chinese medicine - have been pulled off retail shelves.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2022

A variation of Raddix — radix — is a mathematical term for the basis of a system of numeration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020

“Radical” comes from the Latin radix, or “root.”

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2018

Radish also comes from radix - though its route into English is uncertain.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2015

It was a startling step; radix malorum we may call it, so far as the later development of the continental situation is concerned.

From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History