corm

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

• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)m

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.

• cormel
• cormlet
• cormosphere

• cormoid
• cormus