rizom

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

A plume or ear, as of oats or corn.

"Rizoms of Oats, [...] Rizomes, the spearsed ears of Oats in the Straw, a Rizome head, a chaffy sparsed head"
"… the Corns in the Husk. / Some, in stead of an Ear, have a rizom (or plume) conteining the Corns by bunches, as, Oats, …"
"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."

Perhaps related to "rhizome"?

rizoms (plural) rizome (alternative)

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