corm

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Definition of corm in English Turkish dictionary

bitki gövde

{i} bitki soğanı

bazı bitki saplarının alt kısmında bulunan soğanımsı kısım

(isim) bitki soğanı

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Definition of corm in English English dictionary

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

An enlarged, compressed, underground modified stem, often with scaly leaves

A crocus comes from a corm Corms are sometimes called bulbs, but they are not true bulbs An onion, which is a true bulb, has layers in its underground stem; a crocus is solid Corms, like bulbs, will produce roots only from their bottom

A solid, short, swollen underground stem, usually erect and tunicated, of one year's duration, with that of the next year at the top or close to the old one

An underground storage organ consisting of the swollen base of a stem, with roots attached to the underside

The bulblike underground part of a stem, as found on crocus or gladiolus

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

a bulb-like structure formed by enlargement of the stem base, sometimes coated with one or more membranous layers (Benson 1967)

A bulblike but solid, flashy underground stem base

A bulblike but solid, fleshy underground stem base

Often lumped as a bulb, and like a true bulb is an underground stem base, but is solid tissue rather than groups of scales An example of a corm is freesia

A specialized part of a stem; a short, enlarged base of a stem where food is stored May be used as a propagule

Swollen underground stem for food storage

Same as Cormus, 2

{i} round underground swollen stem base of certain plants (such as gladioluses, crocuses and cyclamens) that stores food during the winter and serves for asexual reproduction

A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus

A thickened, short, vertical underground perennial stem in which food is stored

An enlarged underground structure consisting of stem tissue and thin scales Similar to a bulb

Definition: For certain plants, a protuberant stem growing underground that stores food for potential roots, leaves and flowers

A short thick solid food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus. Vertical, fleshy, underground stem that acts as a vegetative reproductive structure in certain seed plants. It bears membranous or scaly leaves and buds. Typical corms are those of the crocus and gladiolus. Corms are sometimes called solid bulbs, or bulbo-tubers, but they are distinguished from true bulbs and tubers

Short, bulb-like stem

Related Terms

A corm

bulbotuber

corms

plural of corm

Etymology

[ 'korm ] (noun.) 1830. New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos tree trunk, from keirein to cut; more at SHEAR.