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corm

 (n): solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure
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19 minutes ago crunchysaviour said:

about 6 hours ago yarb said:

It is autumn. Chestnut-boughs clash their inflamed leaves. The garden festers for attention: telluric cultures enriched with shards, corms, nodules, the sunk solids of gravity. I have raked up a golden and stinking blaze.

- Geoffrey Hill, Mercian Hymns, XII

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