Corm Definition

kôrm
corms
noun
A fleshy, thickened, vertical, underground stem, usually having annual segments with a bud at the tip, thin external scale leaves, and roots at the base, as in the gladiolus: corms differ from bulbs in having much more stem tissue and fewer scale leaves.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Corm

Noun

Singular:
corm
Plural:
corms

Origin of Corm

  • From French corme, from Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek κορμοσ (kormos, “trunk stripped of its boughs”)

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin cormus from Greek kormos a trimmed tree trunk sker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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