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corm

corm noun: 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.

Noun (1)

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.
    • The saffron crocus has to be planted by hand from corms.2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 268
    Synonyms:
    bulbotuber

Noun (2)

corm (plural corms)

  1. (informal) A cormorant.
    • "Great Corm on the barge—fifth bird from the left," shouted a fourth.1992, Pete Dunne, chapter 9, in The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 135
    • These “islands” would provide refuge for corms and other seabirds from sea level rise as habitat is destroyed, as well as protection from land-based predators—people, dogs, cats, rats, and cars.2017 March 28, Mark Rauzon, “The Old Bay Bridge Is Coming Down, Leaving a 40-Year-Old Cormorant Colony Adrift”, in Bay Nature, Spring 2017, archived from the original on 19 May 2024

corm meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Tagalog

corm in Tamil

கந்தம், தண்டுக்கிழங்கு, கருணைககிழங்கு

corm in Kannada

ಗಟ್ಟಿಗಡ್ಡೆ, ಗಟ್ಟಿಗೆಡ್ಡೆ

corm in Tagalog

underground stem of a plant
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Synonyms of corm

Forms of corm

pluralcorms

Origin of corm

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

Clipping of cormorant.

Words formed from corm

Words that rhyme with corm

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Questions about corm

What does corm mean?
Corm means 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.
What is corm in Tamil?
Corm in Tamil is கந்தம், தண்டுக்கிழங்கு, கருணைககிழங்கு. See Corm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is corm?
Corm is a noun.
What is the plural of corm?
The plural of corm is corms.

Words near corm in the dictionary

  1. Corleys
  2. Corlise
  3. Corliss
  4. Corls
  5. Corlăteni
  6. corm
  7. Cormac
  8. Cormack
  9. Cormag
  10. Cormaia
  11. Corman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corm (page history and authors); corm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corm (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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