corm

English

Etymology

From scientific Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

Noun

corm (plural corms)

1. A short, vertical, swollen, underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.

   Synonym: bulbotuber

   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 268:

     The saffron crocus has to be planted by hand from corms.

Derived terms

• cormel
• cormlet
• cormlike
• cormogen
• cormogenesis
• cormogenic
• cormosphere
• cormous
• microcorm
• protocorm

 

Related terms

• cormoid
• cormus

Translations

underground stem of a plant

• Bikol Central: linsa, tanghoy
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 球莖きゅうけい／球茎きゅうけい (zh) (qiújīng)

• Czech: hlíza (cs) f
• Finnish: tyvimukula
• French: corme (fr) m
• German: Wurzelknolle f
• Italian: cormo m
• Ottoman Turkish: صوغان (soğan)
• Polish: bulwocebula f
• Spanish: cormo (es) m
• Swedish: jordknöl c, stamknöl c
• Tagalog: kalislindigsuloy
• Ukrainian: бульбоцибули́на (bulʹbocybulýna)

Anagrams

• Comr.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French corme.

Noun

corm n (uncountable)

1. corm

Declension

declension of corm (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) corm	cormul
genitive/dative	(unui) corm	cormului
vocative	cormule