rhizome
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rhizome
- /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/ US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥίζωμα (rhízōma). As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
noun rhizomes · rhizoma
- A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes. All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.
- A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities. The corpus of Kafka's writing, they argue, is ‘a rhizome, a burrow’ (K 7)—an uncentered and meandering growth like crab grass, a complex, aleatory network of pathways like a rabbit warren. A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree
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Talk about this word "rhizome." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/rhizome. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. rhizome. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/rhizome "rhizome." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/rhizome.Cite this
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title = {rhizome},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rhizome},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
