corm
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English
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Etymology 1
From scientific Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”).
Noun
corm (plural corms)
- 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.
- Synonym: bulbotuber
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 268:
- The saffron crocus has to be planted by hand from corms.
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Translations
underground stem of a plant
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Etymology 2
Noun
corm (plural corms)
- (informal) A cormorant.
- 1992, Pete Dunne, chapter 9, in The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 135:
- "Great Corm on the barge—fifth bird from the left," shouted a fourth.
- 2017 March 28, Mark Rauzon, “The Old Bay Bridge Is Coming Down, Leaving a 40-Year-Old Cormorant Colony Adrift”, in Bay Nature, Spring 2017, archived from the original on 2024-05-19:
- These “islands” would provide refuge for corms and other seabirds from sea level rise as habitat is destroyed, as well as protection from land-based predators—people, dogs, cats, rats, and cars.
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Etymology
Noun
corm n (uncountable)