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Rhizome

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Noun

1. rhizome, rootstalk, rootstock

a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rhizome

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noun
a thick horizontal underground stem of plants such as the mint and iris whose buds develop new roots and shoots
. Also called: rootstock, rootstalk

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Rhizome

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noun
a creeping stem lying, usually horizontally, at or under the surface of the soil and differing from a root in having scale leaves, bearing leaves or aerial shoots near its tips, and producing roots from its undersurface

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rhizome

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n.
A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Also called rootstock.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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