Look up: Corm


  1. Corm
    a short, thickened, underground, upright stem in which food is stored.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20003

  2. Corm
    This is a swollen, underground stem base used for propagation: e.g. Crocus.
    Found op http://www.emilycompost.com/garden_glossary.htm

  3. Corm
    A solid, short, swollen underground stem, usually erect and tunicated, of one year's duration, with that of the next year at the top or close to the old one.
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  4. Corm
    An underground storage organ - strictly a thickened portion of stem with a protective skin, the 'tunic'. Corms are planted like bulbs, but the original corm dries and shrivels up during the growing season and another new one forms above it.
    Found op http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/htbg/glossary/corm.shtml

  5. corm
    [n] - solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=corm

  6. Corm
    The rounded underground storage organ and stem of plants such as crocus that resemble a bulb
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  7. Corm
    The fleshy, bulblike, solid base of a stem, often rising out of a tuber or bulb.
    Found op http://www.swsbm.com/ManualsMM/MedHerbGloss2.txt

  8. Corm
    A bulblike but solid, fleshy underground stem base.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20901

  9. Corm
    Corm (kôrm) noun [ See Cormus .] 1. (Botany) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb . 2. (Biol.) Same as Cormus , 2.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/160

  10. corm
    A bulblike stem, which, unlike a true bulb, is solid and sends down a root when the new growing season begins. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?corm

  11. corm
    noun solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=corm



  1. Corm
    • (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb. • (n.) Same as Cormus, 2.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/corm/

  2. corm
    vertical, fleshy, underground stem that acts as a vegetative reproductive structure in certain seed plants. It bears membranous or scaly leaves and ... [7 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/142

  3. corm
    corm A short swollen underground stem base in some plants such as crocuses and gladioli that stores food over the winter and produces new foliage in the spring. New corms often form on top of old ones and are used as a means of propagating new plants.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/542/

  4. Corm
    A corm (or bulbo-tuber, bulbotuber) is a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ used by some plants to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (estivation). The word cormous is used to describe plants growing from corms, in ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corm

  5. corm
    An organ of vegetative reproduction. A corm is a swollen stem base containing food material and bearing buds in the axils of scale-like remains of leaves of the previous season's growth. Corms occur, for example, in crocus and gladiolus.
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/corm.html

  6. CORM
    A small, roundish underground plant stem structure used to store energy.
    Found op http://www.neonaturalist.com/nature/nature_glossary.html

  7. corm
    corm, short, thickened underground stem, usually covered with papery leaves. A corm grows vertically, producing buds at the upper nodes and roots from the lower surface. Corms serve as organs of food storage and in some plants (e.g., crocus and gladiolus) of asexual reproduction; they are often mist...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0813565.html

  8. Corm
    In botany, a corm or cormus is a solid bulb, the dilated base of the stems of some plants, as the crocus, cyclamen, etc.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/BCA.HTM

  9. corm
    Short, swollen, underground plant stem, surrounded by protective scale leaves, as seen in the genus Crocus. It stores food, provides a means of vegetative reproduction, and acts as a perennating organ. During the year, the corm gradually withers as the food reserves are used for th...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006929.html

  10. Corm
    an enlarged underground structure that consists of stem tissue and thin scales
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21767

  11. corm
    1) Base of a crocus stem 2) Bulb 3) Bulb-like stem 4) Bulblike plant stem 5) Crocus bulb 6) Gladiolus base 7) Rhizome 8) Stalk 9) Stem 10) Tuber 11) Underground stem
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/corm/1

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