CORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corm mean? 

• CORM (noun)
  The noun CORM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("corm" is a kind of...):

stalk; stem (a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ)

Derivation:

cormous (having or producing corms)