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Rhizome vs Radix - What's the difference?

rhizome | radix |

As a noun rhizome

is a horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

As a proper noun radix is

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rhizome

Noun

(en noun)
  • A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
  • (philosophy) A so-called "image of thought" that apprehends multiplicities. See .
  • radix

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A primitive word, from which other words spring.
  • (biology) A root.
  • (mathematics) The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as 10 for decimal.