noun
- a short, thick underground stem that stores food and produces new plants
Usage: botany
Examples
- The gladiolus grows from a corm planted in spring.
- Crocus corms should be planted in fall for spring blooms.
- A corm differs from a bulb in its solid structure.
- The gardener carefully divided the iris corms.
- New shoots emerged from the stored corm.
- Corms can survive winter underground in cold climates.