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A rhizome is a thick plant stem that grows sideways under the ground, or just at the surface. Roots go down from it; new leaves and stems come up from it. Ginger, turmeric, lotus, many irises, and bamboo spread this way.
A rhizome is a thick plant stem that grows sideways under the groundRhizome是一種粗粗的植物莖，會在地底下橫著長, or just at the surface或就長在地表附近。Roots go down from it根會從它那裡往下長; new leaves and stems come up from it新的葉子和莖則會從它那裡往上長。Ginger, turmeric, lotus, many irises, and bamboo spread this way薑、薑黃、蓮藕、很多鳶尾花，還有竹子，都是這樣繁殖擴散的。
If you snap a piece off and plant it, a new plant can grow — use that on purpose.
If you snap a piece off and plant it如果你折一段下來種下去, a new plant can grow就能長出一株新的植物——gardeners use that on purpose園丁就是故意利用這一點。
Though actually, shops and kitchens keep calling these things “roots.” A carrot is a root. The ginger you cook with is a rhizome: a stem that happens to live underground. You can often see rings and buds on it, like a stem.
Though actually不過其實, shops and kitchens keep calling these things "roots."店家和廚房還是一直把這些東西叫做「根」. A carrot is a root紅蘿蔔才是真正的根。The ginger you cook with is a rhizome你煮菜用的薑其實是rhizome: a stem that happens to live underground也就是剛好長在地底下的莖。You can often see rings and buds on it你常常可以在上面看到一圈一圈的節和芽, like a stem就像莖一樣。
Some university writers also use rhizome as a picture for ideas that spread in many directions with no single top; that extra meaning comes from two French . The plant meaning is the one you will meet first, and it is the one that describes a living thing.
Some university writers also use rhizome as a picture有些學術寫作者也會用rhizome來比喻 for ideas that spread in many directions with no single top那種往四面八方擴散、沒有單一頂點的想法; that extra meaning comes from two French thinkers這個額外的意思來自兩位法國思想家。The plant meaning is the one you will meet first植物的意思是你會最先遇到的, and it is the one that describes a living thing也是用來描述一個活生生東西的那個意思。
組成Borrowed from Greek rhízōma, from rhíza “root.” Named as a “rooted thing,” even though botanists now class it as a stem, not a root.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
rhizomenoun/ˈɹaɪzoʊm/
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.
- All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesA so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.
- 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。