radicícola

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin radīcīs (“root”, genitive) +‎ -cola (“breeder; inhabitant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /radiˈθikola/ [ra.ð̞iˈθi.ko.la]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /radiˈsikola/ [ra.ð̞iˈsi.ko.la]
• Rhymes: -ikola
• Syllabification: ra‧di‧cí‧co‧la

Adjective

radicícola m or f (masculine and feminine plural radicícolas)

1. (botany, zoology) (of an animal or plant): radicicolous (which lives parasitically in the roots of plants)

Further reading

• “radicícola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10