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)
- 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.
- 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre 2003, p. 268:
Derived terms
- cormel
- cormlet
- cormosphere
Related terms
- cormoid
- cormus
Translations
Anagrams
- Comr.
Romanian
Etymology
From French corme.
Noun
corm n (uncountable)
- 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)
- (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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