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CORMOUS PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cormous plant mean?
• CORMOUS PLANT (noun)
The noun CORMOUS PLANT has 1 sense:
1. plant growing from a corm
Familiarity information: CORMOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant growing from a corm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("cormous plant" is a kind of...):
tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cormous plant"):
star grass (any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America)
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