Foetal Corm
A short thick solid food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus.
[New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos, a trimmed tree trunk; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
A short thick solid food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus.
[New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos, a trimmed tree trunk; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]