I light up a dark room when screwed into a lamp socket, yet buried underground in spring, I grow into a bright red tulip. What am I?
A bulb
The riddle plays on a shared vocabulary term for two very different physical objects. An incandescent light bulb illuminates an interior room using electricity. In gardening, a plant bulb is an underground storage structure that bursts into a flower when spring arrives.
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