Bulbs are underground plant stems. They provide food for a shoot.

鳞茎是植物的地下根茎，为幼芽提供养分。

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Leave plant stems free to catch air and moisture and resist disease.

让植物自由的生长，接触空气和水分，抵抗疾病。

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Three years earlier Jane had observed chimps fishing for termites with plant stems.

三年前珍妮发现大猩猩用植物茎吊食白蚁。

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To dry parsley, tie the plant stems together and hang them upside down in a warm, dark,airy place.

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Black cohosh is an herb that comes from the root or underground stems of a tall plant in the buttercup family.

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Some gardeners plant potatoes under straw, or stems of dried grain.

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Some of the most beautiful things in this show are the shikisi, or poem cards, in which the visual form of Koetsu's writing chimes wonderfully with the loops and eddies of Sotatsu's water, the spikes of his plant stems and the slow blur of his distant mountains.

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Picking up a pink bunch of roses, Hess shows me he'll be looking at leaves and stems for plant rust, mildew, whitefly and many more bugs.

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For a nonchewer, nonsmoker, she looks upon the upstairs room allotted to her as a hellhole, smelly, the walls green from the spit of the chewers, the crannies stuffed with the plant's unchewed stems.

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