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Horizontal underground plant stem. It is a
perennating organ in some species, where it
is generally thick and fleshy, while in other
species it is mainly a means of vegetative
reproduction, and is therefore long and
slender, with buds all along it that send up
new plants. The potato is a rhizome that has
two distinct parts, the tuber being the
swollen end of a long, cordlike rhizome. See
also rootstock.