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rhizome

Noun

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A rootstock. See Rootstock.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. Carl Jung

As the clump and its rhizome system mature, taller and larger culms are produced each year until the plant approaches its particular species limits of height and diameter. Source: Internet

Bamboos include some of the fastest-growing plants in the world, citation due to a unique rhizome -dependent system. Source: Internet

Deleuze and Guattari had proposed the substitution of the tree model with the rhizome to challenge hierarchy. Source: Internet

Fresh Ginger and Turmeric Both rhizome roots are anti-inflammatory and inhibit inflammatory cytokines. Source: Internet

It is a perennial herbaceous plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to the cold-hardy rhizome in autumn. Source: Internet

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