Definition of corm

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Corm (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb..

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Cormophylogeny :: Cormophylogeny (n.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.
Crocus :: Crocus (n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn..
Norie :: Norie (n.) The cormorant.
Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant..
Bulb :: Bulb (n.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid..
Shag :: Shag (n.) Any species of cormorant.
Bulbo-tuber :: Bulbo-tuber (n.) A corm.
Cormophytes :: Cormophytes (n. pl.) Alt. of Cormophyt.
Cyclamin :: Cyclamin (n.) A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeum..
Corm :: Corm (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb..
Cormus :: Cormus (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached..
Cormus :: Cormus (n.) See Corm.
Gorma :: Gorma (n.) The European cormorant.
Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..
Snakebird :: Snakebird (n.) Any one of four species of aquatic birds of the genus Anhinga or Plotus. They are allied to the gannets and cormorants, but have very long, slender, flexible necks, and sharp bills..
Puttyroot :: Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve..
Cormogeny :: Cormogeny (n.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.
Cormoraut :: Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.
Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..
Sea Raven :: Sea raven () The cormorant.
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