Rhizome

/ˈɹaɪzoʊm/

Synonyms for "rhizome" (14 found)

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Noun(2 words)

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Related words (7)

Noun(3 words)
rootstalkturmericunderground stem

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conceptphilosophical conceptplant organstalkstem

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creeping rhizomedeterritorializationginger rhizomeiris rhizomemultiplicityreterritorialization

Collocations

6 entries
rhizome growthrhizome metaphorrhizome networkrhizome structurerhizome systemunderground rhizome

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Sample sentences

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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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