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How to pronounce rhizome in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rootstalk, rootstock
Type of stalk, stem
Derivation rhizomatous

Examples of rhizome

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A deeply planted rhizome is one of the chief reasons a young iris does not bloom.
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Throw out any parts of the rhizome that are diseased, blackened, hollow or mushy.
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Rhizome Magazine is the magazine for postgraduate and research students at UOW.
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With a sharp knife, cut sections of new rhizome showing one or two fans of leaves.
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The rhizome shows little branching, with intervals of 4.0 to 7.5 mm between nodes.
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Over many years of growth, the branching rhizome can grow into a large colony.
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In tree ferns, however, the rhizome is hard to miss since it constitutes the trunk.
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Space them 4 to 12 inches apart, depending on the size of the rhizome or container.
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One rhizome will soon mature into a sizable clump of interconnected rhizomes.
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More examples
  • A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
  • In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (/u02C8rau026Azou028Am/, from Ancientu00A0Greek: rhu00EDzu014Dma "mass of roots", from rhizu00F3u014D "cause to strike root") is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks and rootstocks...
  • Rhizome is a not-for-profit arts organization, that supports and provides a platform for new media art.
  • Rhizome is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Fu00E9lix Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972u20131980) project. It is what Deleuze calls an "image of thought," based on the botanical rhizome, that apprehends multiplicities.
  • A horizontal underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes
  • (Rhizomes) underground runners of some types of plants that extend laterally to create new plants.
  • (Rhizomes) A form of reproduction where a plant grows an underground offshoot from its roots or stem that surfaces and grows into a new plant at a different location.
  • (Rhizomes) A rhizome is a horizontal part of a plant or grass that is found underground. They have short internodes and are a part of the root.
  • (Rhizomes) A root-like stem which is prostrate, grows partly or wholly underground, and can root from the stem nodes. Sometimes called "Rootstock".