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corm  (kôrm)

n.

A short thick solid food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus.

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[New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos, a trimmed tree trunk; see sker-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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corm [kɔːm]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) an organ of vegetative reproduction in plants such as the crocus, consisting of a globular stem base swollen with food and surrounded by papery scale leaves Compare bulb [1]

[from New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos tree trunk from which the branches have been lopped]

cormous  adj

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corm  (kôrm)

A fleshy underground stem that is similar to a bulb but stores its food as stem tissue and has fewer and thinner leaflike scales. The crocus and gladiolus produce new shoots from corms. Compare bulbrhizomerunnertuber

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

corm - solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure stalk, stem - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

Translations

corm [kɔːm] N (Bot) → bulbo m

corm

n → Knolle f

corm [kɔːm] n (Bot) → cormo