1982, A. Zee, Unity of Forces in the Universe, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 512:
Let us call the massless fermions which make up quarks and leptons "rizoms". The rizoms listen to a gauge interaction based on a group GHC which we refer to as "hypercolor." Rizoms belong to some anomaly free representation R of[…]
1986, G. Lazarides, Q. Shafi, Particles and the Universe: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Particles and the Universe, Held at Thessaloniki, Greece, June 24-29, 1985, North Holland:
EXCEPTIONAL PREONS In recent years, a number of people have played at constructing models of preons or rizoms, following ... The world at the rizom level is to be described by a hypercolor gauge group and a hyperflavor Ghc Ghf. One[…]
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1799, Neues Bilderbuch für Kinder: enthaltend Gegenstände aus dem Reiche der Natur, der Wissenschaften, der Künste und Handwerke, getren abgebildet und in vier Sprachen faßlich beschrieben. Nro. 9:
[...] which on a halm are found shaped on high like rizoms or plumes. [...]
