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单词 corm
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
corm  (kôrm),USA pronunciation n. [Bot.]
  1. Botanyan enlarged, fleshy, bulblike base of a stem, as in the crocus.
  • Greek kormós a tree trunk with boughs lopped off, akin to keírein to cut off, hew
  • Neo-Latin cormus
  • 1820–30
cormlike′, adj. 
cormoid, adj. 
cormous, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
corm /kɔːm/ n
  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
Etymology: 19th Century: from New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos tree trunk from which the branches have been lopped
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