corm

(Anglès)

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.

Etimologia (Anglès)

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

Conceptes

corm

Sinònims

tuber

root

taro

caudex

dasheen

pseudobulb

bulb

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bulbotuber

Traduccions

cormo

knol

cormo

bulbotubero

Bolle

bulbotuber

Cormo

cormus

bulbe

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tubercule