rhizome

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/

Noun

rhizome (plural rhizomes)

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

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Translations

horizontal underground stem of some plants

Catalan: rizoma m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 根莖 (zh), 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)

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 c, rhizom c, rotstock c
Tagalog: kalisgapansuloy
Tibetan: རམ་རྩ་ (ram rtsa), རྩི་ཤིང་གི་ལྦ་རྩ་ (rtsi shing gi lba rtsa)

image of thought

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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

French

Noun

rhizome m (plural rhizomes)

(botany) rhizome

Further reading

“rhizome” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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