different between rhizome vs galingale

English

Alternative forms

• rhizoma

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (rhíza, “root”) +? -ome. As philosophical metaphor used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??a?zo?m/

Noun

rhizome (plural rhizomes)

1. (botany) A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots (scions) from its nodes.

   Synonym: rootstalk
2. (philosophy, critical theory) A so-called “image of thought” that apprehends multiplicities.

Derived terms

• rhizomatic

Related terms

• licorice

Translations

Further reading

• rhizome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rhizome (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

rhizome m (plural rhizomes)

1. (botany) rhizome

Further reading

• “rhizome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English galingale, from Old French galingal, from Arabic ??????????? (?alanj?n), from Persian ???????? (qulinjân, qulanjân), from Sanskrit ??????? (kulañjana), perhaps from Chinese ??????? (g?oliángji?ng), from ?? (a prefecture or county in China) + ? (“ginger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æl???e?l/

Noun

galingale (countable and uncountable, plural galingales)

1. Alternative spelling of galangal
   • 1980, The Times, 10 Jan 1980, p.12 col. A

     An early English version [of marmelade] was called charedequynce, of which one version included wine, honey, ginger, galingale, cinnamon and wardens as well as quinces.

2. One of several species of Cyperus sedges with aromatic rhizomes.

Middle English

Noun

galingale

1. Alternative form of galyngale