rhizome

A horizontal, usually underground stem that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

In 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.

A rootstock. See rootstock.

A horizontal underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities. See Rhizome (philosophy).

a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure