单词 | rhizome |
释义 | rhizome Bot.|ˈraɪzəʊm| [Anglicized f. rhizoma, and now more usual.] A prostrate or subterranean root-like stem emitting roots and usually producing leaves at its apex; a rootstock.
1845Lindley Sch. Bot. i. 4 If prostrate and rooting into the ground..[the stem] is a rhizome, as in the Iris. 1862Jrnl. Roy. Soc. Dubl. Apr. 346 Whilst ferns have nutritive rhizomes. 1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 411 Similar rudimentary leaves..occur also on the ordinary rhizome-shoots. 1882Vines tr. Sachs' Bot. 228 Phanerogams in which lateral branches with foliage-leaves spring from a rhizome clothed only with scales. |

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