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corm
n.
round underground swollen stem base of certain plants (such as gladioluses, crocuses and cyclamens) that stores food during the winter and serves for asexual reproduction
Corm
A
corm,
bulbo-tuber, or
bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen underground
plant stem that serves as a
storage organ used by some plants to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (
estivation).
corm
Noun
1. solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure
(hypernym) stalk, stem
Corm
(n.)
Same as Cormus, 2.
(n.)
A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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