Associations to the word «Rhizome»

Wiktionary

RHIZOME, noun. A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
RHIZOME, noun. (philosophy) A so-called "image of thought" that apprehends multiplicities. See Rhizome (philosophy).

Dictionary definition

RHIZOME, noun. A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne