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Know Your Underground Roots
Know Your Underground Roots
Underground Stems
The underground stems, by being situated below the surface of the soil, protect themselves against unfavorable conditions of weather and the attack of animals and serve as storehouses for reserve food, and in vegetative propagation. Their stem nature can be distinguished by the presence of nodes and internodes, scale leaves at the nodes, axillary buds in axils of scale…
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Quick. Couch-grass, and other field-grasses and weeds, or their underground stems. It takes fresh root at its joints, like quick-grass. (1765)
— from A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (aka The OED (1888)), here. (via asfaltics | the quick : the life)
