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n. A short thick solid food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus.

n. 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.

n. A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See bulb.

n. Same as Cormus, 2.

n. In botany, a bulb-like, solid, fleshy subterranean stem, producing leaves and buds on the upper surface and roots from the lower, as in the cyclamen.

n. In zoology, a cormus.

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

"Tribes that have more contact with modern medicine take the root, known as a corm, and crush it for use as a topical remedy for snake bites, Morgan said."

stalk    stem   

bulb    cormus   

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