An underground stem that usually grows horizontally and looks like a root.
Underground stem, distinguished from root by its nodes, buds or scale-like leaves.
A creeping underground stem.
A creeping stem, usually below ground, consisting of a series of nodes and internodes with adventitious roots.
Creeping, often fleshy underground stem from which new plants may arise.
An elongated (usually horizontal) underground stem, producing shoots above and roots below; distinguished from a true root because of its buds, nodes, and usually scale-like leaves.
A botanical term meaning a horizontal, thickened, rootlike stem, from which spring small rootlets. Orris root is a rhizome.
An elongated underground stem bearing buds in the axils of reduced scale leaves.
A creeping underground stem.
Horizontal underground stem distinguished from a root by scale-like leaves and axillary buds. Horizontal stem with reduced scaly leaves, as in many grasses.
A underground plant stem lasting more than one season.
Horizontal, underground stem, bears roots and leafy stems.
Horizontal part of the stem, often growing underground and producing lateral shoots and roots.
An underground or superficial stem, differing from a root in having nodes, growth buds or leaves. In ferns, all stem are called rhizomes, even if they form a tree-like trunk.
A creeping underground stem, sometimes fleshy.
A creeping stem, growing either at ground level, or just below, and swollen with starch and nutnents to nourish the shoots and roots that grow from it. The rhizomes are the edible part of the ginger plant.
An underground stem, usually lateral, and producing shoots and roots.
An underground, more or less horizontal stem.
A plant’s underground stem that branches out into roots.
A food-storing stem that grows horizontally at or just below soil level, from which new shoots may emerge.
A stem that creeps on or below the surface, rooting as it goes, usually thickened and containing stored food, commonly the overwintering organ of perennials. The rhizomes are the edible part of the ginger plant.
A rootlike stem growing horizontally along or below the ground and sending out roots and shoots.
A creeping, usually horizontal, underground storage stem which sends up leafy shoots each season.
A thick prostrate root-like stem, usually horizontal, which sends out roots below and shoots above. It is differentiated from ordinary rootstock by the presence of nodes, buds, and occasionally scale-like leaves.
An underground, often ground level, branched, swollen root-like stem, that usually grows horizontally and bears leafy shoots.
Fleshy, typically horizontal, creeping roots that function for storage and reproduction.