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Definition of corm in English: cormnoun kɔːmkɔrm A rounded underground storage organ present in plants such as crocuses, gladioli, and cyclamens, consisting of a swollen stem base covered with scale leaves. Compare with bulb (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples - Some of these plants grow from corms and rhizomes.
- Along with true bulbs, several types of flowers, sold as bulbs, grow from the underground stem growth of rhizomes, tubers, and corms.
- The former probably show more vegetative reproduction, by rhizomes, corms and bulbs.
- We're hoping that the next garden will have a spot where we can safely plant a few corms to naturalise and spread out.
- Plant gladioli, and corms of ranunculus and anemone.
- The most forgotten purchase of plants is bulbs, tubers and corms.
- And they are so easy to manipulate in the garden: Plant a corm and harvest flowers 85 to 100 days later.
- Tender bulbs, corms and tubers will need protection in cold areas.
- Plant corms 3 to 4 inches deep and 6 inches apart in rich, well-drained soil in an area that gets full sun and no summer water.
- The primary bulb species used for gardens and landscapes include: true bulbs, corms, tubers, tuberous roots, rhizomes, and enlarged hypocotyls.
- The corms of these selected plants were sectioned and the diameter of the corm and central cylinder determined.
- Examine bulbs, corms, and tubers for shriveling and rot.
- Bulbs are geophytes including flower-producing bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes with underground storage systems.
- To our knowledge, humans are the only organism that routinely digs up, divides and replants tubers, bulbs and corms of flowers.
- Clonal progeny may be produced by stolons, runners, rhizomes, tubers, buds on bulbs, corms and roots, layering of stems, and agamospermous seed.
- The sturdy spade-shaped tool is great for loosening the soil in landscape fabric or plastic planting holes, or in beds when planting bulbs, corms or plugs.
- Despite their differing underground structures, corms, tuberous roots, and rhizomes are all referred to as bulbs.
- The banana is a herbaceous perennial that grows from an underground corm.
- Bulbs, tubers, roots and corms should be firm and have no obvious mechanical damage or mold.
- They are rhizome-like in stalk appearance but actually develop from an underground corm, taking 10 to 15 months before flowering.
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin cormus, from Greek kormos 'trunk stripped of its boughs'. Rhymes conform, dorm, form, forme, haulm, lukewarm, Maugham, misinform, norm, outperform, perform, shawm, storm, swarm, transform, underperform, warm Definition of corm in US English: cormnounkɔrmkôrm A rounded underground storage organ present in plants such as crocuses, gladioli, and cyclamens, consisting of a swollen stem base covered with scale leaves. Compare with bulb (sense 1), rhizome Example sentencesExamples - Some of these plants grow from corms and rhizomes.
- The banana is a herbaceous perennial that grows from an underground corm.
- Along with true bulbs, several types of flowers, sold as bulbs, grow from the underground stem growth of rhizomes, tubers, and corms.
- Bulbs are geophytes including flower-producing bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes with underground storage systems.
- Clonal progeny may be produced by stolons, runners, rhizomes, tubers, buds on bulbs, corms and roots, layering of stems, and agamospermous seed.
- Plant gladioli, and corms of ranunculus and anemone.
- The primary bulb species used for gardens and landscapes include: true bulbs, corms, tubers, tuberous roots, rhizomes, and enlarged hypocotyls.
- And they are so easy to manipulate in the garden: Plant a corm and harvest flowers 85 to 100 days later.
- Despite their differing underground structures, corms, tuberous roots, and rhizomes are all referred to as bulbs.
- The sturdy spade-shaped tool is great for loosening the soil in landscape fabric or plastic planting holes, or in beds when planting bulbs, corms or plugs.
- To our knowledge, humans are the only organism that routinely digs up, divides and replants tubers, bulbs and corms of flowers.
- Bulbs, tubers, roots and corms should be firm and have no obvious mechanical damage or mold.
- The most forgotten purchase of plants is bulbs, tubers and corms.
- Tender bulbs, corms and tubers will need protection in cold areas.
- Plant corms 3 to 4 inches deep and 6 inches apart in rich, well-drained soil in an area that gets full sun and no summer water.
- They are rhizome-like in stalk appearance but actually develop from an underground corm, taking 10 to 15 months before flowering.
- The corms of these selected plants were sectioned and the diameter of the corm and central cylinder determined.
- Examine bulbs, corms, and tubers for shriveling and rot.
- We're hoping that the next garden will have a spot where we can safely plant a few corms to naturalise and spread out.
- The former probably show more vegetative reproduction, by rhizomes, corms and bulbs.
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin cormus, from Greek kormos ‘trunk stripped of its boughs’. |