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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.
[New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos, a trimmed tree trunk; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
corm
Noun
the scaly bulblike underground stem of certain plants [Greek kormos tree trunk]
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
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Noun1.cormcorm - 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
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corm [kɔːm] n → Knolle f


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Plant corms (anemone, crocus and freesia) 3 inches apart and bulbs (tulip, daffodil, hyacinth) 5 inches apart.
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with a soft, pungent white fruit that is widely used in Asia and in the traditional cooking of the Loire Valley; and Chinese water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis), which are actually corms, not nuts, and which are eaten raw or steamed and milled into flour.
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