rhizome
nounA horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
nounIn botany, a stem of root-like appearance, horizontal or oblique in position, lying on the ground or subterranean, bearing scales instead of leaves, and usually producing from its apex a leafy shoot or scape.
nounA rootstock. See
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A so-called “image of thought” that
a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure