单词 | corm |
释义 | corm/kɔːm /noun 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).Clonal progeny may be produced by stolons, runners, rhizomes, tubers, buds on bulbs, corms and roots, layering of stems, and agamospermous seed....
OriginMid 19th century: from modern Latin cormus, from Greek kormos 'trunk stripped of its boughs'. Rhymes |
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