noun
- a horizontal underground stem that produces roots and shoots
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The ginger rhizoma is commonly used in cooking and medicine.
- Botanists studied the rhizoma structure of the iris plant.
- The rhizoma allows the plant to spread horizontally underground.
- Many perennial plants survive winter through their rhizoma systems.
- The rhizoma of bamboo can extend several feet beneath the soil.
- Gardeners divide the rhizoma to propagate new plants.