corm

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

knol

Synoniemen

tuber

root

taro

caudex

dasheen

pseudobulb

bulb

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bulbotuber

Vertalingen

cormo

corm

cormo

tubercule

Bolle

bulbotubero

cormus

bulbotuber

Cormo

bulbe

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Etymologie (Engels)

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