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

The exhausted corm of the previous year is underneath; forming ones for next year on the summit and sides.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa