rhizome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.

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rhizome rhizomes rhizoma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥίζωμα (rhízōma). As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

race rootstalk

licorice mycorrhiza

microrhizome rhizomatic rhizomatous rhizomed rhizomic

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