Associations to the word «Rhizome»

Wiktionary

RHIZOME, noun. A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
RHIZOME, noun. (philosophy) A so-called "image of thought" that apprehends multiplicities. See Rhizome (philosophy).

Dictionary definition

RHIZOME, noun. A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky