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▪ I. † corm1, corme Obs.
[a. F. corme, app.:—L. cornum the cornel-cherry (see cornel); but in OF. the names cormier and corme were applied to the service-tree and its fruit, also called sorbe; see Littré.]
1. The fruit of the service-tree, the sorb; also the tree, Pyrus domestica (Sorbus L., Cormus Spach).
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxxiv. 437 The apples be pale, in figure lyke the Sorb-apple or Corme. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 268 Cormes, services, azerolls, and the like.
2. The cornel tree.
1676Hobbes Iliad (1677) 255 Many lusty limbs then broken are Of barky corme [Il. xvi. 767 τανύϕλοιον κράνειαν], broad beech, and lofty ash. ― Odyss. (1677) 285, I cut up by the root, And smooth'd with iron tools a lusty corm.
▪ II. corm2 Bot.|kɔːm|
[ad. mod. Bot. Lat. cormus (Willdenow c 1800), a. Gr. κορµός, the trunk of a tree with the boughs lopped off, f. κείρ-ειν (ablaut stems κερ-, κορ-) to cut, poll, lop.]
A short fleshy rhizome, or bulb-like subterraneous stem of a monocotyledonous plant, producing from its upper surface leaves and buds, and from its lower, roots; also called solid bulb.
(By Asa Gray applied also to the rhizomes of dicotyledonous plants such as cyclamen; but this is not generally followed.)
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 269 The fleshy cormus of some Cannas. 1838― Gloss. Bot., Corm, a fleshy underground stem, having the appearance of a bulb, from which it is distinguished by not being scaly. 1845― Sch. Bot. i. (1858) 2 What is named the root of a Crocus is a variety of the tuber, called a corm. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §3. 61 A good type of corm is that of Cyclamen.
attrib.1882Garden 28 Jan. 53/2 (Crocus) The corm-tunic is the only permanent record of perennial existence, and even this in a living state lasts but a year. |