rizom

See also: rižom

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Alternative forms

• rizome

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rhizome.

Noun

rizom m (plural rizomi)

1. rhizome

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rizom	rizomul		rizomi	rizomii
genitive-dative	rizom	rizomului		rizomi	rizomilor
vocative	rizomule			rizomilor

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rizom (Cyrillic spelling ризом)

1. instrumental singular of riza