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rhizome
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A further source of vegetative reproduction lies in the rhizomes of numerous species. ▪ Acorus and Anubias species have such rhizomes. ▪ New plants arise vegetatively from dormant buds on the short upright rhizome of the main ...
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n. a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure [syn: rootstock , rootstalk ]
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Rhizome is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972–1980) project. It is what Deleuze calls an "image of thought," based on the botanical rhizome , that apprehends multiplicities .
Usage examples of rhizome.
Darla was upset by the incident of the Bandersnatch, her suspicions about Corey Rhizome were fully confirmed a few months later when Kellee Kaarp came over to visit.
These include the rhizomes turmeric and galangal, and the seed pods of several species of the ginger family, known as cardamoms.
Ferns, palms, bromeliads, proteas, orchids, shrubs, vines, cacti, creepers, bulbs and corms and tubers and rhizomes, bonsaied trees.
This oligopolistic model is not a rhizome but a tree structure that subordinates all of the branches to the central root.
This plant, which bore only ten tubers, would no doubt have resisted the drought for even a longer time, had I not previously removed three of the tubers and cut off several long rhizomes.
Did the three species just named, like their close allies, the several species of Utricularia, aboriginally possess bladders on their rhizomes, which they afterwards lost, acquiring in their place utriculiferous leaves?
Here too, the taxonomy gets tricky because some of the Zingiberaceae have been classified by their rhizomes as well as their seed pods.
The green tops and young roots, baked in the coals along with the sweet rhizomes of the sweetflag and the underwater base of the bulrushes, supplied the beginning of a meal.
They terminate in a rhizome, but this sometimes decays and drops off .
As it appeared probable that this plant would capture a greater number of animals in its native country than under culture, I obtained permission to remove small portions of the rhizomes from dried specimens in the herbarium at Kew.
These rhizomes appear exactly like roots, but occasionally throw up green shoots.
As the bladders are attached to the rhizomes, they are necessarily subterranean.
Similar papillae abound on the rhizomes, and even on the entire leaves, but they are rather broader on the latter.
On the other hand, the rhizomes bear bladders resembling in essential character those on the rhizomes of Utricularia.
Digging down to the underground system of roots and rhizomes, she collected several, and boiled the greenish-yellow goldenseal root to make a healing and insect-repelling wash for the sore eyes and throats of the horses.