Corm

[kɔːm] or [kɔrm]

(noun.) solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure.

Typist: Ruth--From WordNet

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

(n.) Same as Cormus, 2.

Editor: Stu

n. sometimes called a solid bulb—the short bulb-like subterranean stem of many plants—e.g. crocus.

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