rizom

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English

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Perhaps related to "rhizome"?

Noun

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rizom (plural rizoms)

  1. (also heraldry) A plume or ear, as of oats or corn.
    • 1688, Randle Holme, The academy of armory, book 2, chapter VI:
      Rizoms of Oats, [...]
      Rizomes, the spearsed ears of Oats in the Straw, a Rizome head, a chaffy sparsed head
    • 1659, Johann Amos Comenius, Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, [] , XVII, Corn:
      [...] the Corns in the Husk. / Some, in stead of an Ear, have a rizom (or plume) conteining the Corns by bunches, as, Oats, [...]
    • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopædia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:
      The corn, or fruit, at the top of an oat-stalk is not generally termed the ear, but the rizom; and in old heraldry it is sometimes blazoned an oat-stalk, bladed and rizomed.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French rhizome.

Noun

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rizom m (plural rizomi)

  1. rhizome

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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rizom (Cyrillic spelling ризом)

  1. instrumental singular of riza