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

The plant gets its common and genus names from the blood-red fluid that exudes from every part of the plant, including the underground rhizome, when cut.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 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