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Definitions of rhizome
  1. noun
    a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure

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  • ginger pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery
  • ginger perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
  • fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
  • turmeric widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye
  • turmeric ground dried rhizome of the turmeric plant used as seasoning
  • hellebore perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
  • horsetail perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America
  • orris German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome
  • gingerroot pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery
  • genus zerumbet perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes
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