corm

1. 1.

   solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure

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Other forms of corm

plural

corms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corm

What does corm mean?

corm means "solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure".

How many syllables are in corm?

corm has 1 syllable: corm. In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹm/.

Is corm a common word?

corm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.