rhizome
Example Sentences
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“My dream as a teacher,” Haas said, “is when something keeps growing underground, like a rhizome, and then at a different place grows into a different plant.”
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Only the blechnum seemed not to have weathered the agonizing collapse: When Baer cut a sample for analysis, he could find no trace of healthy rhizome, or fern stem, as the other plants had.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2023
Native peoples chewed the stems, which have a licorice flavor, and brewed remedies for coughs and sore throats from the fern’s rhizome.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2023
Vertical shoots may arise from the buds on the rhizome of some plants, such as ginger and ferns.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
I know the difference between a raceme and a rhizome, I explicate photosynthesis, I can spell Scrofulariaciae.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
