0 a stem of some plants that grows horizontally along or under the ground and produces roots and leaves --
Rhizome elongation ceases and elongating nutsedge leaves become trapped beneath the clear film.
It regenerates vegetatively by rhizomes.
And, despite the strict division of the ' ' book into chapters, sections and sub-sections, there remains - in a positive sense - a sense of rhizomes.
I found no selective effect of the rhizome on uptake, and no evidence of recirculation of nutrient ions from the leaves to the growing sporophyte.
Used commonly as food, the lotus rhizomes are said to have numerous medicinal values as well, many similar to those of leaves.
Therefore, rhizomes have relatively higher phenotypic plasticity than individuals derived from seeds that had not previously experienced the soil environment.
The rhizome is a flexible machine, a structure without a definitive order, a procedure for creating and getting to know the new.
Just how long individual rhizomes are able to survive is evidently unknown, but their renewal of lotus stands year after year goes on and on.
