radicate

To take root.

To cause to take root; root; plant deeply and firmly.

In zoology:

Rooted; fixed at the bottom as if rooted; growing from a fixed root or root-like part.

Specifically, in conchology:

Byssiferous; fixed by a byssus.

Adherent by the base to some other body, as a limpet to a rock.

Rooted and of a plant-like habit, as a polyzoan; not incrusting like a lichen; belonging to the Radicata.

In botany, rooted.

adjective

Radicated.