rhizome

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈɹaɪzoʊm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. 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 structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams.

词形变化

rhizomes plural rhizoma alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
microrhizome rhizomatic rhizomatous rhizomed rhizomic
相关词
licorice mycorrhiza

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥίζωμα (rhízōma). As philosophical metaphor, used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
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