rhizome
US/ˈɹaɪzoʊm/
rhizome noun: a horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
Noun
rhizome (plural rhizomes)
- A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
- All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.1868, George Bacon Wood, A Treatise on Therapeutics, and Pharmacology, Or Materia Medica, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 432
- A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.
- The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren. A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a...1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107
- Critical theorists have often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet. While the Internet may structurally appear as a rhizome, its day-to-day usage by millions via search engines precludes experiencing the random interconnectedness and...2008, A. Hess, “Reconsidering the Rhizome”, in Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, editors, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 35
rhizome meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Malay
rhizome in Tamil
- தரைமட்டத் தண்டு, வேர்த்தண்டுக்கிழங்கு, கிழங்கு, தண்டு, வேர், நிலத்தடித்தண்டு
rhizome in Tagalog
- horizontal underground stem of some plants
- ayuyang
rhizome in Malay
- horizontal underground stem of some plants
- rizom
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- rhizome in Indonesian
- rimpang
- rhizome in Persian
- ریزوم rizom
Examples of rhizome in a sentence
- The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren.1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107:
- Critical theorists have often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet.2008, A. Hess, “Reconsidering the Rhizome”, in Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, editors, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer...
Synonyms of rhizome
Forms of rhizome
| plural | rhizomes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | rhizoma |
Origin of rhizome
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥίζωμα (rhízōma). As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Words formed from rhizome
Questions about rhizome
- What does rhizome mean?
- Rhizome means a horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
- What is rhizome in Tamil?
- Rhizome in Tamil is தரைமட்டத் தண்டு, வேர்த்தண்டுக்கிழங்கு, கிழங்கு. See Rhizome meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use rhizome in a sentence?
- The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren.
- What part of speech is rhizome?
- Rhizome is a noun.
- How do you pronounce rhizome?
- Rhizome is pronounced /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/ (US).
- What is the plural of rhizome?
- The plural of rhizome is rhizomes.
Words near rhizome in the dictionary
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