Thesaurus / rhizome
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other words for rhizome
- essence
- foundation
- heart
- origin
- seed
- soul
- source
- stem
- stuff
- basis
- bedrock
- beginnings
- bottom
- cause
- center
- crux
- derivation
- essentiality
- footing
- fountain
- fountainhead
- fundamental
- germ
- ground
- groundwork
- inception
- infrastructure
- mainspring
- marrow
- motive
- nub
- nucleus
- occasion
- pith
- provenance
- provenience
- quick
- quintessence
- radicle
- radix
- reason
- seat
- substance
- substratum
- tuber
- underpinning
- well
- rock bottom
- starting point
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How to use rhizome in a sentence
Sometimes dumb-bells, compact sheaves of fine needles, and irregular rhizome forms are seen (Fig. 40).
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDThe root of golden seal is used in medicine under the name hydrastis rhizome, as a stomachic and nervine stimulant.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 14, SLICE 1VARIOUSThis plant has a very thick rhizome from which arise the erect stems.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINFrom a slender, creeping rhizome, which is black in colour, the fronds arise.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINThis plant has a thin creeping rhizome from which the fronds arise.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINTara-fern, t′r-fern, n. a New Zealand brake, with a thickened edible rhizome.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSThis plant has a thick rhizome which creeps horizontally below the ground, and a round stem from one to three feet high.
FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTSWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXJup was not forgotten, and he ate with relish some stone-pine almonds and rhizome roots, with which he was abundantly supplied.
ABANDONEDJULES VERNEA, Fertile shoot, springing from the rhizome, which also bears tubers; the vegetative shoots have not yet unfolded.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 13, SLICE 6VARIOUSRoot stock, rhizome, a stem usually subterranean and more or less thickened, producing young branches.
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WORDS RELATED TO RHIZOME
- basis
- bedrock
- beginnings
- bottom
- cause
- center
- crux
- derivation
- essence
- essentiality
- footing
- foundation
- fountain
- fountainhead
- fundamental
- germ
- ground
- groundwork
- heart
- inception
- infrastructure
- mainspring
- marrow
- motive
- nub
- nucleus
- occasion
- origin
- pith
- provenance
- provenience
- quick
- quintessence
- radicle
- radix
- reason
- rhizome
- rock bottom
- seat
- seed
- soul
- source
- starting point
- stem
- stuff
- substance
- substratum
- tuber
- underpinning
- well
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.