corm
Example Sentences
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They were tantalized by images circulating online, purportedly taken by locals, that depict a towering banana corm, several stories high, with leaves about 5 yards long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2017
The corm is used by gladiolus and garlic.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
I grab a huge corm, which we call the makua.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
The jack-in- the-pulpit root, or corm, tastes and looks like potato.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Colchicum. o. c. old corm; n. c. new growth; o. r. old roots.
From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by Weathers, John
