rhizome en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥίζωμα (rhízōma). As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Meanings
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A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.
1868, George Bacon Wood, A Treatise on Therapeutics, and Pharmacology, Or Materia Medica, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 432:
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(qualifier:critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.
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.
1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107: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.
2008, A. Hess, “Reconsidering the Rhizome”, in Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, editors, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 35:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhizomes | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| rhizoma | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
rhizomic · rhizomed · microrhizome · rhizomatous · rhizomatic
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Synonyms
Translations (51)
de Wurzelstock (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · cmn 根莖 /根茎 (image of thought) · pl kłącze (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · cs oddenek (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · eo rizomo (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · it rizoma (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · fi rihmasto (image of thought) · fa ریزوم (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · cmn 根莖 /根茎 (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · mi akakōare (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · io rizomo (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · cy rhisom (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · pl kłącze (image of thought) · kk түп (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · sv rotstock (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · es rizoma (image of thought) · bo རམ་རྩ་ (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · pt rizoma (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · km មើម (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · ca rizoma (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · no jordstengel (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · ja 根茎 (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · no rhizom (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · haw ʻauaʻa (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · hu rizóma (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · tl ayuyang (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · br dangorz (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · bo རྩི་ཤིང་གི་ལྦ་རྩ་ (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · el ρίζωμα (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · ka ფესურა (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · no rotstokk (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · ru ризо́ма (image of thought) · uk ризо́ма (image of thought) · ms rizom (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · fr rhizome (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · uk кореневище (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · sv jordstam (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · fi maavarsi (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · az kökümsov (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · bg коренище (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · de Rhizom (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · cy gwreiddgyff (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · nl rizoom (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · ru корневи́ще (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · ko 땅속줄기 (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · nl wortelstok (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · fi vaakajuurakko (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · es rizoma (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · id rimpang (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · mi akakōareare (horizontal underground stem of some plants) · sv rhizom (horizontal underground stem of some plants)