corm

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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

The jack-in- the-pulpit root, or corm, tastes and looks like potato.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

I grab a huge corm, which we call the makua.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

The parent corm remains attached to the new one, and keeps its form and size till April in the third year of its existence, after which it decays.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various