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Rhizome   /rˈaɪzˌoʊm/   Listen
Rhizome

noun
1.
A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure.  Synonyms: rootstalk, rootstock.






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"Rhizome" Quotes from Famous Books



... creeping, branching rhizome of a pale yellowish white color, which, on drying, darkens to a straw color, or even a brown in places. When dry it is about the thickness of a thick knitting needle, swelling to the thickness of a quill when soaked in water. It is of uniform thickness, except near the leaf-bearing ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

... classrooms to lecture before ladies' clubs hitherto sacred to the accents of transoceanic celebrities and Eleanor Roosevelt. There they competed on alternate forums with literate gardeners and stuttering horticultural amateurs. Stolon, rhizome and culm became words replacing crankshaft and piston in the popular vocabulary; the puerile reports Gootes fabricated under my name as the man responsible for the phenomenon were syndicated in newspapers ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore



Words linked to "Rhizome" :   rhizomatous, stalk, stem, rootstock



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