rizom
Noun
A plume or ear, as of oats or corn.
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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, …
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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.
Word forms
rizomsrizome