Corm meaning

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A short thick solid food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus.
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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.
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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.
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A short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.
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Origin of corm

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

Corm Sentence Examples

  • Propagation is by the formation of new corms from the parent corm, and by seeds.

  • k', Younger corm produced from k.

  • They contain a volatile oil which does not occur in the corm, and their proportion of colchicine is higher, for which reason the Tinctura Colchici Seminum- dose 5 to 15 minims - is preferable to the wine prepared from the corm.

  • The corm of the meadow-saffron attains its full size in June or early in July.

  • A smaller corm is then formed from the old one, close to its root; and this in September and October produces the crocus-like flowers.

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