Definition of "corm" []

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

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• "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."
• "In bananas these offsets are called suckers, but because they grow from the corm, which is an underground swollen stem, they are in fact offsets."
• ""It's called a corm, and the plant smells stronger, too.""