Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to rhizomes; having the nature or appearance of a rhizome; rhizomalous.
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- adjective Resembling or related to a
rhizome . - adjective philosophy Employing
rhizomes ; notarborescent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fast-frozen structures have yielded to new forms of social organization with "rhizomatic" reach, to borrow a term from French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
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Fast-frozen structures have yielded to new forms of social organization with "rhizomatic" reach, to borrow a term from French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Forbes.com: News Colin B. Grant 2010
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A big reason that this particular rhizomatic model offers a more effective form of leadership and story creation than a tree-in-the-head like Uygur can see or admit is that it mirrors the digital ecosystem in which stories live.
Mike Bonifer: Cenk Uygur Has a Tree in His Head Mike Bonifer 2011
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The plant has a slow spreading, rhizomatic root system that supports several vertically furrowed blooms, each stamen independent yet fundamentally connected.
Remembering Our Roots… « in other words [a portland feminist and queer bookstore and blog] 2009
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A big reason that this particular rhizomatic model offers a more effective form of leadership and story creation than a tree-in-the-head like Uygur can see or admit is that it mirrors the digital ecosystem in which stories live.
Mike Bonifer: Cenk Uygur Has a Tree in His Head Mike Bonifer 2011
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Nomadology and rhizomatic resistance may provide a means to solve the problem represented in the novel.
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Nomadology and rhizomatic resistance may provide a means to solve the problem represented in the novel.
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In a very important sense, Twitter is decentralized at its core, it is rhizomatic rather than arborescent.
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The Webkit team, as a rhizomatic offshoot from Apple, has a similar development pedigree and has consistently produced a high quality — now cross-platform — open source project, nary engaging in polemics or politics.
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The plant has a slow spreading, rhizomatic root system that supports several vertically furrowed blooms, each stamen independent yet fundamentally connected.
jodi commented on the word rhizomatic
For the philosophy term, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_%28philosophy%29
October 10, 2011