Corm Definition

kôrm
corms
noun
A fleshy, thickened, vertical, underground stem, usually having annual segments with a bud at the tip, thin external scale leaves, and roots at the base, as in the gladiolus: corms differ from bulbs in having much more stem tissue and fewer scale leaves.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Corm

Noun

Singular:
corm
Plural:
corms

Origin of Corm

  • From French corme, from Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek κορμοσ (kormos, “trunk stripped of its boughs”)

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin cormus from Greek kormos a trimmed tree trunk sker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Corm Sentence Examples

  • Propagation is by the formation of new corms from the parent corm, and by seeds.

  • A new corm develops at the base of the new shoot.

  • The plants have a rhizome or corm, and the fruit is a capsule.

  • The British Pharmacopoeia contains (i) an extract of the fresh corm, having doses of 4 to i grain, and (2) the Vinum Colchici, made by treating the dried corm with sherry and given in doses of 10 to 30 minims. This latter is the preparation still most generally used, though the presence of veratrine both in the corm and the seeds renders the use of colchicine itself theoretically preferable.

  • When inhaled, the powder causes violent sneezing, similar to that produced by veratrine itself, which is, as already stated, a constituent of the corm.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOR

Words Ending With

MRMORM

Unscrambles

corm

Words Starting With C and Ending With M

Starts With C & Ends With MStarts With CO & Ends With MStarts With C & Ends With RM

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With C4 Letter Words Ending With M