Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Also called rootstalk, rootstock.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a stem of root-like appearance, horizontal or oblique in position, lying on the ground or subterranean, bearing scales instead of leaves, and usually producing from its apex a leafy shoot or scape. Rhizomes may be slender, with wellmarked nodes, as in mints, couchgrass, etc., or thickened with stores of nutriment, as in species of iris, Solomon's-seal, etc. - in the latter case producing at the apex an annual bud which furnishes the aërial shoot of the next season, and gradually dying at the old end. Rhizomes shade off gradually into corms and bulbs on the one hand, and into tubers on the other. See these terms. Also
rhizoma . See also cuts underarrowroot and moniliform.
Wiktionary
- n. A horizontal underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
- n. philosophy A so-called "image of thought" that apprehends multiplicities. See Rhizome (philosophy).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A rootstock. See rootstock.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
Etymologies
- Greek rhizōma, mass of roots, from rhizoun, to cause to take root, from rhiza, root. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first two principles of the rhizome are the "principles of connection and heterogenity.”
“Since the rhizome is a system concept, I see no problem with the way that I have dealt with this difficulty by looking at the Internet as a system.”
“Cattails also “travel” by sending out a horizontal stem called a rhizome not far from the parent plant.”
Simon & Schuster: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
“Both leaves and flowers have been used in medicine, but the rhizome is the part most frequently used.”
“Each frond grows from a specialized stem called a rhizome which grows sideways at the surface or underground.”
“A rhizome is a rootlike semi to subterranean stem, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots from the upper surface.”
“Pedro Mealha was inspired by those 3D plywood dinosaur kits when he designed this lamp, called rhizome, the armature of which is a great example of the emerging "router aesthetics" Bruce Sterling wrote about back in MAKE Volume 11.”
“The very singular mode of germination of _Sechium edule_ in which the fruit, instead of rotting, becomes thickened into a kind of rhizome or tuber, is a fact that should not be overlooked in investigating the true nature of the fruit in this order.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“(The Water Plantain Tribe.) All are aquatic plants, and many contain a fleshy rhizome which is eatable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rhizome’.
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
raad, rabanna, rabbet, rabble, Rabelaisian, rabic, racemation, raceme, racemiferous, rach, rachidian, rachiometer and 514 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Naturals
dogtooth violet, adder's-tongue, ribbon fern, breadberry, echinate, stamen, aeolian, boreas, chinook, Eurus, firmament, edentata and 35 more...
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garden me pretty
fritillary, honeysuckle, anenome, trug, love-lies-bleeding, convolvulus, clover, till, wheelbarrow, dibber, trailing hearts, viola and 2 more...
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Poetic
the blue hour, dinner-pail, long-drawn, pettifog, spoonmeat, crawler, eructate, voiced, medial, tessellated, eyeballs, amphigory and 48 more...
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root tips and other ends
stolon, circinate, calyptrogen, meristem, verticil, fusiform, telomere, skirret, relbun, turpeth, galangal, vetiver and 54 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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haguremetaru's Words
floozy, mandalay, mandible, x, don't, will, ridiculous, funily, stuff, junk, doody, manning and 152 more...
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Word of the day.
Some days, there will be a word. That word is the word of the day. Other days shall remain wordless. That's just the way things go.
petulant, anisometropia, zoroaster, cram, affinity, proprietary, cupertino effect, sidereal, schmutz, icosanoids, vendetta, bougie and 137 more...
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Grounded Words
an Eckhartian exercise of grinding
grind, grist, refrain, ground, grit, mitochondrion, groats, grout, gruel, great, gruesome, gravel and 162 more...
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Just Plain Weird.
Something about these words doesn't look or feel right. And yet... they're strangely appealing.
pumpkin, platypus, atlatl, pterodactyl, octopus, veldt, asparagus, aspic, lacquer, mastiff, weevil, lapis and 156 more...
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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 348 more...
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Phrases and words I didn't know
give up the ghost, ninja'd, coal-hole, hotting up, chancer, clave, salaryman, turf accountant, cremains, autoclave, hummingbird mind, gank and 175 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Exquisite.
Words to my liking. (The most lovelybeautifulintricatecondecendinggratuitous.)
unequivocally, destitute, prudent, sagacious, circumspect, discreet, rash, forethought, evince, judicious, shrewd, extravagant and 227 more...
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