rhizome

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The plant itself is closely related to the spice ginger and the goodness or the extract as we ought to refer to, is within the root known as the rhizome.

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  1. noun A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Also called rootstalk, rootstock.

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  • The creeping root, rhizome, or underground stem, is thick and white, twisted and full of knots, with large circular scars at intervals, these scars give Solomon's Seal it's name. —  Find Me A Cure
  • A medicinal infusion of root or rhizome, is used in alternative medicine as an astringent, demulcent, and tonic. —  Find Me A Cure
  • The roots are rhizome, knotty and dark-brown externally, with many thin, long, wiry rootlets attached to it, marked with scars of the stems of former years, internally the rhizome is whitish, with a darkbrown pith. —  Find Me A Cure
  • • A study on rabbits suffering from hemorrhagic shock examined the effects of various combinations of salvia root, tien chi root and chuan xiong rhizome (Ligusticum wallichii). —  Find Me A Cure
  • The plant itself is closely related to the spice ginger and the goodness or the extract as we ought to refer to, is within the root known as the rhizome. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Greek rhizōma, mass of roots, from rhizoun, to cause to take root, from rhiza, root; see wrād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French rhizome, from New Latin rhizoma, from Greek ῤίζωμα, root, from ῤιζοῦν, cause to take root, in passive take root, from ῤίζα, root: see root.
 

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