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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... A horizontal, underground plant stem that bears roots and leaves. Compare stolon...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
... Botanical term for swollen stem that produces roots and leafy...
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World Encyclopedia
... Creeping, root-like underground stem of certain plants. It usually grows horizontally, is rich in accumulated starch, and can produce new roots and stems asexually. Rhizomes differ from roots in producing buds and leaves. See also asexual reproduction ; ...
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
... A horizontally creeping underground stem which bears roots and leaves and usually persists from season to...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
... A horizontally creeping underground stem which bears roots and leaves and usually persists from season to...
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A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...and Guattari, the rhizome is synonymous with the swarm and the pack. Deleuze and Guattari are clear, however, that no pure form of the rhizome or indeed the arboreal actually exists; rather, these two forms are best seen as tendencies present to a greater or lesser degree in all processes. Deleuze and Guattari identify six key principles underpinning the operation of the rhizome: (i) connection—any point of the rhizome can be connected to anything other, there is no prescribed pathway for connections; (ii) heterogeneity—the rhizome does not simply connect...
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A Dictionary of Human Geography
... A metaphor favoured by post-structuralists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to describe non-hierarchical, decentred relationships in which there are many points of connection and many routes of travel. Botanically, a rhizome is a mass or tangle of roots that allow a plant to expand underground in a non-hierarchical fashion. In A Thousand Plateaus ( 1980 ) Deleuze and Guattari argued that too much critical theory —like the social world it studied—was analytically systematic and politically prescriptive. They argued for greater attention to the gaps...
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A Dictionary of Agriculture and Land Management
... An underground stem from the nodes of which new shoots and roots can emerge as a form of vegetative propagation. An example of a plant that spreads in this way is the weed couch ...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... A botanical metaphor developed by Deleuze and Guattari for a non-hierarchical organizing structure based on a horizontal root that grows through the soil sprouting new plants. The rhizome is an alternative to a tree-like structure, because its radical asymmetry, random distribution, and interconnectedness means that it cannot be understood in terms of binary oppositions ; consequently it resists categorization and structural analysis. Distributed networks like the early internet and nonlinear writing systems like hypertext are ...
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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)
...to the parents’ bed or to the tap-root of the Oedipal triangle. The rhizome, they claim, can help us to formulate some of the principles which describes all multiplicities as such beyond the botanical realm. As such, the rhizome is not a metaphor for something else (such as modes of social organization), but it is a concept which aims to offer a more radical understanding of ontological processes as dynamic and mutating assemblages. The most popular sociological use of the rhizome concept has been as a means to describe the socio-technical structure of...
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A Dictionary of Biology (8 ed.)
...rhizome A horizontal underground stem. It enables the plant to survive from one growing season to the next and in some species it also serves to propagate the plant vegetatively. It may be thin and wiry, as in couch grass, or fleshy and swollen, as in Iris . Compact upright underground stems, as in rhubarb, strawberry, and primrose, are often called rootstocks...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...in the rhizome or the burrow. 2 Movement and Speed As defined in the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus , the rhizome is both opposed to the tree model, allowing us to contrast movements of comparison, modeling, grounding, and structure with the rhizome’s nonhierarchical movements, and ultimately aims to be nonoppositional or nonbinary. The concept of the rhizome runs throughout A Thousand Plateaus but begins with a reference to botany: “It will be noted that the word ‘plateau’ is used in classical studies of bulbs, tubers, and rhizomes; see the...
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The Oxford Companion to Beer
...rhizome is a stem of a plant that grows horizontally underground and is capable of producing new shoots or roots for the plant. The rhizome serves as one means by which this type of plant may spread and propagate itself. A number of plants produce rhizomes, such as hops, ginger, bamboo, and Bermuda grass. The hop plant is a perennial; thus, the material above ground dies back each winter, but the root structure survives and will continue producing new plant material for many years. New shoots will grow from the rhizomes that have overwintered. Rhizomes grow...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... (bot.) root-like stem. XIX. — Gr. rhizōma , f. rhizoûsthai take root, f. rhíza ...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • brome , chrome, comb, Crome, dome, foam, gnome, holm, Holme, hom, home, Jerome, loam, Nome, ohm, om, roam, Rome, tome • Guillaume • biome • Beerbohm • radome • astrodome • Styrofoam • megohm • Stockholm • Bornholm • motorhome • backcomb • honeycomb • cockscomb , coxcomb • toothcomb • genome • gastronome • metronome • syndrome • palindrome • polychrome • Nichrome • monochrome • velodrome • hippodrome • aerodrome • cyclostome • ...
