rhizome

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”) and -ome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/

Noun

rhizome (plural rhizomes)

1. (botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
2. (philosophy) A so-called "image of thought" that apprehends multiplicities. See Rhizome (philosophy).

Related terms

Related terms

• licorice

Translations

horizontal underground stem of some plants

• Catalan: rizoma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 根莖／根茎 (zh) (gēnjīng), 根茎 (zh) (gēnjīng)

• Czech: oddenek (cs) m
• Dutch: wortelstok (nl) m
• Esperanto: rizomo
• Finnish: maavarsi (fi)
• French: rhizome (fr) m
• Georgian: ფესურა (pesura)
• German: Rhizom (de) n
• Greek: ρίζωμα (el) n (rízoma)
• Hawaiian: ʻauaʻa
• Hungarian: rizóma
• Ido: rizomo (io)
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• Italian: rizoma (it) m
• Japanese: 根茎 (こんけい, konkei)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 땅속줄기 (ko) (ttangsokjulgi)
• Malay: rizom
• Norwegian: jordstengel m, rhizom n, rotstokk m
• Persian: ریزوم (fa) (rizom)
• Polish: kłącze (pl) n
• Portuguese: rizoma (pt) m
• Russian: корневи́ще (ru) n (kornevíšče)
• Spanish: rizoma (es) m
• Swedish: jordstam (sv) c, rhizom (sv) c, rotstock (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalisgapansuloy
• Tibetan: རམ་རྩ་ (ram rtsa), རྩི་ཤིང་གི་ལྦ་རྩ་ (rtsi shing gi lba rtsa)
• Ukrainian: кореневище (uk) n (korenevyšče)

image of thought

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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• Finnish: rihmasto (fi)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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French

Noun

rhizome m (plural rhizomes)

1. (botany) rhizome

Further reading

• “rhizome”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.