different between corm vs geophyte

corm

English

Etymology

From scientific Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kormós, trunk stripped of its boughs).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -??(r)m

Noun

corm (plural corms)

  1. 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.
    • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 268:
      The saffron crocus has to be planted by hand from corms.

Derived terms

  • cormel
  • cormlet
  • cormosphere

Related terms

  • cormoid
  • cormus

Translations

Anagrams

  • Comr.

Romanian

Etymology

From French corme.

Noun

corm n (uncountable)

  1. corm

Declension

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geophyte

English

Etymology

geo- (earth) +? -phyte (plant)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?i??(?)f??t/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?d?io??fa?t/

Noun

geophyte (plural geophytes)

  1. (botany) A perennial plant, for example the potato or daffodil, which in spring propagates from an underground organ such as a bulb, tuber, corm or rhizome.

Derived terms

  • geophytic

Translations

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