Corm - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cormCyclamen
A genus of plants of the Primrose family having depressed rounded corms and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards whence it is called rabbits ears It is also called sow bread because hogs are said to eat the corms...
Bulb
A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground usually below which is strictly a bud consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves and producing as it grows a stem above and roots below as in the onion tulip etc It differs from a corm in not being solid...
Bulbo tuber
A corm...
Corm
A solid bulb shaped root as of the crocus See Bulb...
Crocus
A genus of iridaceous plants with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm Crocus vernus is one of the earliest of spring blooming flowers Crocus sativus produces the saffron and blossoms in the autumn...
Cyclamin
A white amorphous substance regarded as a glucoside extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europaeligum...
geophyte
a perennial plant propagated by overwintering buds on underground bulbs or tubers or corms...
Pseudo bulb
An aeumlrial corm or thickened stem as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants...
Puttyroot
An American orchidaceous plant Aplectrum hyemale which flowers in early summer Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm filled with exceedingly glutinous matter which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf Called also Adam and Eve...
Quillwort
Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four tubed rushlike leaves rising from a corm and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases There are about seventeen American species usually growing in the mud under still shallow water So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves...
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