corm

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.
2. noun A cormorant.

Similar words

gladiolus onions cormus cormel protocorm cormogen cormogenesis microcorm stem cormophyte

Often followed by

is and of or rot with in production yield

Word family

corms