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Topic: PLANTS

Date: 1800-1900
Language: Modern Latin
Origin: rhizoma, from Greek, 'mass of roots', from rhiza 'root'

rhizome

 noun
     
rhi‧zome [countable]
technicalHBP the thick stem of some plants, which lies under the ground and has roots and leaves growing out of it
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