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Rhizome

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rootstocknoun(agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
rootstalknoun(botany) Synonym of rhizome.

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rootstalknoun(botany) Synonym of rhizome.
rootstocknoun(agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
stolonnoun(botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
sympodial(botany) Having a specialized lateral growth pattern in which the apical meristem is terminated.
horizontalnounA horizontal component of a structure.
rhizomanounAlternative form of rhizome. [(botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.]
rhizogenesisnoun(botany) The production and development of roots or rhizomes
rhizogennoun(obsolete, botany) One of a former proposed class of flowering plants growing on the roots of other plants and lacking green foliage.
root hairnoun(biology) The rhizoid of a vascular plant; a tubular outgrowth of a trichoblast, a hair-forming cell on the epidermis of a plant root.
scionnounA descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
rhizoidnoun(botany) A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients.
stemnounThe stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
rhizomorphnounA rootlike structure, consisting of a dense mass of hyphae, in many fungi
rhizocaulnounThe rootstock of a polyp.
radiclenoun(botany) The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo.
rhizinenoun(botany, lichenology) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid
rhizologynoun(botany) The study of plant roots.
rhizosecretionnoun(botany) secretion from a rhizome
rhizinanounAlternative form of rhizine. [(botany, lichenology) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid]
rhizotaxisnoun(botany) The arrangement of the roots of plants.

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