Usually means: Underground stem, spreads, stores nutrients.
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  1. rhizome: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rhizome: Merriam-Webster
  3. rhizome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rhizome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rhizome: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rhizome: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rhizome, rhizome: Wordnik
  8. rhizome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rhizome: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. rhizome: Wiktionary
  11. rhizome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. rhizome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. rhizome: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. rhizome: Dictionary.com
  15. rhizome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Rhizome (disambiguation), Rhizome (metaphor), Rhizome (organization), Rhizome (philosophy), Rhizome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rhizome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rhizome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rhizome: Rhymezone
  20. Rhizome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rhizome: FreeDictionary.org
  22. rhizome: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. rhizome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rhizome: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhizome: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhizome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. rhizome: Natural Health glossary
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  5. rhizome: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhizome: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Rhizome: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  7. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  8. rhizome: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhizome: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
noun:  (philosophy, critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.

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