Rhizome

//ˈɹaɪzoʊm//

Synonyms for "rhizome" (9 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (3)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (4)

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

2 entries

Related terms

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derived

5 entries

has context

2 entries

is a

2 entries

related to

10 entries

Translations

51 translations across 35 languages.

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Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • kökümsov noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Breton

1 entries
  • dangorz noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • коренище noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Catalan

1 entries
  • rizoma noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 根莖 /根茎 noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • 根莖 /根茎 noun (image of thought)

Czech

1 entries
  • oddenek noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Dutch

2 entries
  • rizoom noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • wortelstok noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • rizomo noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Finnish

3 entries
  • maavarsi noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • rihmasto noun (image of thought)
  • vaakajuurakko noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

French

1 entries
  • rhizome noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ფესურა noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

German

2 entries
  • Rhizom noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • Wurzelstock noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Greek

1 entries
  • ρίζωμα noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Hawaiian

1 entries
  • ʻauaʻa noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • rizóma noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Ido

1 entries
  • rizomo noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • rimpang noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Italian

1 entries
  • rizoma noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 根茎 noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • түп noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Khmer

1 entries
  • មើម noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Korean

1 entries
  • 땅속줄기 noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Malay

1 entries
  • rizom noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Māori

2 entries
  • akakōare noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • akakōareare noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Norwegian

3 entries
  • jordstengel noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • rhizom noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • rotstokk noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Persian

1 entries
  • ریزوم noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Polish

2 entries
  • kłącze noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • kłącze noun (image of thought)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • rizoma noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Russian

2 entries
  • корневи́ще noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • ризо́ма noun (image of thought)

Spanish

2 entries
  • rizoma noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • rizoma noun (image of thought)

Swedish

3 entries
  • jordstam noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • rhizom noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • rotstock noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • ayuyang noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Tibetan

2 entries
  • རམ་རྩ་ noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • རྩི་ཤིང་གི་ལྦ་རྩ་ noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • кореневище noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • ризо́ма noun (image of thought)

Welsh

2 entries
  • gwreiddgyff noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)
  • rhisom noun (horizontal underground stem of some plants)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

That plant has a rhizome.

Source: tatoeba (10660945)

All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.

Source: wiktionary

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 root-tree structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams.

Source: wiktionary

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 potential democratizing function.

Source: wiktionary

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