different between rhizome vs geophyte

English

Alternative forms

• rhizoma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (rhíza, “root”) +? -ome. As philosophical metaphor used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??a?zo?m/

Noun

rhizome (plural rhizomes)

1. (botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.

   Synonym: rootstalk
2. (philosophy, critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.

Derived terms

• rhizomatic

Related terms

• licorice

Translations

Further reading

• rhizome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rhizome (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

rhizome m (plural rhizomes)

1. (botany) rhizome

Further reading

• “rhizome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

geo- (“earth”) +? -phyte (“plant”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?i??(?)f??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?io??fa?t/

Noun

geophyte (plural geophytes)

1. (botany) A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome.

Derived terms

• geophytic

Translations