corm

American  

[kawrm] / kɔrm /

noun

Botany.

1. an enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.

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corm British  

/ kɔːm /

noun

1. an organ of vegetative reproduction in plants such as the crocus, consisting of a globular stem base swollen with food and surrounded by papery scale leaves Compare bulb

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corm Scientific  

/ kôrm /

1. 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.

2. Compare bulb rhizome runner tuber

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Other Word Forms

• cormlike
  adjective
• cormoid
  adjective
• cormous
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of corm

1820–30; < New Latin cormus < Greek kormós a tree trunk with boughs lopped off, akin to keírein to cut off, hew

Example Sentences

"We are in crisis management mode without being able to look at all at long-term problems or see what the overall solutions are because we're distracted by daily matters," Telecoms Minister Johnny Corm told Reuters.

From Reuters • Jan. 13, 2022

Revenues from telecoms were in decline before the crisis, Corm said, a fall often blamed on corruption.

From Reuters • Jan. 13, 2022

Internet outages and weak mobile signals plague the system, but Corm suggested the outlook for any improvement was bleak, with as many as half of the two firms' employees failing to turn up for work.

From Reuters • Jan. 13, 2022

Corm said the companies had to review prices to keep operating and avoid draining the state's already almost empty coffers.

From Reuters • Jan. 13, 2022

See Glossary to Laws s.v. dul. dulbaire f. lack of eloquence, bad delivery 179. dulsaine f. mockery 142; in cerd mac húi Dulsine, Corm.

From The Triads of Ireland by Meyer, Kuno

Related Words

• corn