Definition of corm

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Corm (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb..

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Corm :: Corm (n.) Same as Cormus, 2..
Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..
Scarf :: Scarf (n.) A cormorant.
Cyclamin :: Cyclamin (n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum..
Bulb :: Bulb (n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid..
Sea Crow :: Sea crow () The cormorant.
Cormophylogeny :: Cormophylogeny (n.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.
Cormoraut :: Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.
Puttyroot :: Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve..
Sea Raven :: Sea raven () The cormorant.
Cyclamen :: Cyclamen (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms..
Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant..
Cormogeny :: Cormogeny (n.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.
Coalgoose :: Coalgoose (n.) The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.
Cormophyta :: Cormophyta (n. pl.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.
Corvorant :: Corvorant (n.) See Cormorant.
Cormus :: Cormus (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached..
Corm :: Corm (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb..
Gorma :: Gorma (n.) The European cormorant.
Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..
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