Crossword-Solution: RHIZOME
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rhizome | n. | A rootstock. See Rootstock. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “RHIZOME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ARROWHEAD plant food-storage organ | 1 answer |
| ARROWHEAD plant stem | 1 answer |
| Rootlike stem | 1 answer |
| Underground stem found in ginger and iris | 1 answer |
| Ginger, e.g. | 3 answers |
| Underground stem | 5 answers |
| rootstock | 5 answers |
| GRASS, part of | 10 answers |
| A HORIZONTAL PLANT STEM WITH SHOOTS ABOVE AND ROOTS BELOW SERVING AS A REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE | 11 answers |
| Plant stem | 16 answers |
| tuber | 18 answers |
| Stem | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with RHIZOME (5)
Herbs with perennial rhizome." There are three if not more species of bananas native to Queensland, and they form a conspicuous feature of the jungle.
Before the fruit has fully developed, other shoots have appeared; but each plant bears but one bunch, and when that is removed the plant is decapitated and slowly decays, and the second and third and fourth shoots from the rhizome successively arrive at the bearing stage and are permitted to mature each its bunch and then fated to suffer immediate decapitation.
The tough sweet yam ("pun-dinoo"), the heart of the Alexandra palm ("koobin-karra"), the hard rhizome of BOWENIA SPECTABILIS ("moo-nah") after being allowed weeks to decompose, the core of the tree fern ("kalo-joo"), the long root-stock of CURCULIGO ENSIFOLIA ("harpee") crisp and slightly bitter, the broad beans of the white mangrove ("kum-moo-roo"), would stand as vegetables.
Twenty were found on the rhizomes of a single plant, but they cannot be strictly counted; for, besides the twenty, there were all possible gradations between a short length of a rhizome just perceptibly swollen and one so much swollen that it might be doubtfully called a tuber.
The bundle of vessels which runs up each rhizome, as soon as it enters the tuber, separates into three distinct bundles, which reunite at the opposite end.
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Appears in: WP.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2013).