CORM


Meaning of CORM in English

/ kɔːm; NAmE kɔːrm/ noun

the small round underground part of some plants, from which the new plant grows every year

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WORD ORIGIN

mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin cormus , from Greek kormos trunk stripped of its boughs.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.