The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RHIZOME
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More clues leading to the result RHIZOME
- Stalk underground art whizz discovered by women’s centre
- Underground part of plant Mercedes-Benz vacated has endless heroin supply
- Capital inwardly greeting Zambia’s rootstock
- City takes in principally homeless, itinerant, zero-rated rootstock
- One puts down roots, beginning to read one last letter in residence
- Republican base harbouring single unknown source of shooting?
- To get to the root ring me right here in zone firstly
- Underground plant stem I find in European capital between searches in Hamburg and Zagreb initially
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The straight part
We know that "One puts down roots" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case one puts down roots = rhizome.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does RHIZOME mean?
RHIZOME noun- A horizontal, underground stem of some plants that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
- A so-called "image of thought" that apprehends multiplicities. See Rhizome (philosophy).