Meaning of rhizome | Babel Free
ˈɹaɪzoʊmDefinitions
Equivalents
Azərbaycanca
kökümsov
Bosanski
ću
Català
rizoma
Čeština
oddenek
Ελληνικά
ρίζωμα
Esperanto
rizomo
Español
rizoma
Galego
rizoma
Hrvatski
ću
Magyar
rizóma
Bahasa Indonesia
rimpang
Italiano
rizoma
日本語
根茎
Қазақша
түп
ខ្មែរ
មើម
한국어
땅속줄기
Polski
kłącze
Português
rizoma
Српски
ću
Tagalog
ayuyang
Tiếng Việt
củ
Examples
“All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.”
“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.”
“Critical theorists have⟳ often drawn from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome when discussing the potential of the Internet. While the Internet may structurally appear⟳ as a rhizome, its day-to-day usage by millions via search⟳ engines precludes experiencing the random interconnectedness and potential democratizing function.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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