Look up: Rhizome

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   Rhizome
   an underground, horizontal stem.
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   rhizome
   n. A horizontal underground stem, such as found in many ferns, where only the leaves may stick up into the air; sphenophytes (horsetails and their relatives) spread via rhizomes, but also produce erect stems.
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   Rhizome
   In botany, a rhizome is a sort of stem running along the surface of the ground, or partially subterranean, sending forth shoots at its upper end and decaying at the other.
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   Rhizome
   A thickened stem which grows horizontally below or on the soil surface, as in iris rhizomes.
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   Rhizome
   A horizontal, underground stem which is distinguished from a root by the presence of nodes, buds and leaves or scales.
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   Rhizome
   A swollen underground stem that is able to continue extending, unlike a tuber. Rhizomes are used as storage organs by dormant plants.
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   rhizome
   [n] - a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
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   Rhizome
   A subterranean modified stem. Rhizomes may be creeping, spreading the plant by producing new plants at intervals. Other rhizomes are primarily storage organs, so that the plant can survive out of the growing season. Often rhizomes provide both of these functions.
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   Rhizome
   A stem of a plant which grows underground in a horizontal manner producing roots and shoots at the nodes. Once these shoots establish the rhizome may be severed and the new plants will survive. Some rhizomes may also store food for the plant. See also Stolon.
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    Rhizome
    A thickened horizontal underground stem with roots and leaves or shoots
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    Rhizome
    A specialized underground or surface stem, capable of producing aerial parts along its length.
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    Rhizome
    A perennial creeping underground portion of a stem which may look like a root; producing shoots on top and roots beneath; different from a root in that it has buds, nodes, and scaly leaves; rootstock.
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    rhizome
    a stem that grows entirely underground; a creeping stem Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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    Rhizome
    Rhi·zome' noun [ Greek ......... the mass of roots (of a tree), a stem, race, from ......... to make to root, pass., to take root, from ......... a root: confer French rhizome .] (Botany) A rootstock. See Rootstock .
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    rhizome
    <plant biology> A horizontal underground stem which can send out both shoots and roots, rhizomes sometimes have thickened areas that store starch. ... (23 Aug 1998) ...
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    rhizome
    rootstock 2 rootstalk noun a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
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    Rhizome
    In botany, a `rhizome` is a horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes. Plants with underground rhizomes include ginger and turmeric, significant for their medicinal properties, and the weeds Johnson grass, bermuda grass, and purple nutsedge. Some plants have rhizomes that grow above ground or that sit at the soil surface, including some `Iris` species, and ferns, whose spreadin...
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    Rhizome
    • (n.) A rootstock. See Rootstock.
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    rhizome
    in botany, horizontal, underground plant stem capable of producing the shoot and root systems of a new plant. This capability allows the parent ... [13 related articles]
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    rhizome
    In some vascular plants (e.g. mint, couch grass), a usually more-or-less horizontal underground stem. Rhizomes may be enlarged for storage or may function in vegetative reproduction.
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    RHIZOME
    An underground, horizontal stem
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    rhizome
    rhizome (rī'zōm) or rootstock,fleshy, creeping underground stem by means of which certain plants propagate themselves. Buds that form at the joints produce new shoots. Thus if a rhizome is cut by a cultivating tool it does not die, as would a root, but becomes several plants instead ...
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