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Etymology 1

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From scientific Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, trunk stripped of its boughs).

Noun

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corm (plural corms)

  1. 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.
    Synonym: bulbotuber
    • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 268:
      The saffron crocus has to be planted by hand from corms.
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of cormorant.

Noun

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corm (plural corms)

  1. (informal) A cormorant.
    • 1992, Pete Dunne, chapter 9, in The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 135:
      "Great Corm on the barge—fifth bird from the left," shouted a fourth.
    • 2017 March 28, Mark Rauzon, “The Old Bay Bridge Is Coming Down, Leaving a 40-Year-Old Cormorant Colony Adrift”, in Bay Nature[1], Spring 2017, archived from the original on 2024-05-19:
      These “islands” would provide refuge for corms and other seabirds from sea level rise as habitat is destroyed, as well as protection from land-based predators—people, dogs, cats, rats, and cars.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French corme.

Noun

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corm n (uncountable)

  1. corm

Declension

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Declension of corm
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative corm cormul
genitive-dative corm cormului
vocative cormule