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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)
- (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
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French rhizome.
Noun
rizom m (plural rizomi)
- rhizome
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
rizom (Cyrillic spelling ризом)
- instrumental singular of riza