Meanings of corm in English

Then cut off each stalk about two inches from its junction with the corm.

This is a small corm or fleshy bulb having the shape and size of a small onion.

During non-flowering periods for this plant, the energy is stored in what is referred to as a corm.

The operation should be so performed as to leave the crown of the corm four inches below the surface.

From the corm, a single leaf will shoot up form which the plant will photosynthesise, creating energy from the sun's rays.

They tend to rise out of the ground, because the new bulb or corm forms on the top of the old one.

As the seedlings become ready transfer to small pots, and shift on as growth demands, always keeping the crown of the corm free from soil.

This star-flowered corm grows like a freesia, having a rather lank habit, but it is remarkably hardy (though not reputed to be so).

TNF-a-induced KC production in YAMC cells was also inhibited by CORM-2 treatment.

Further, nuclear translocation of NF-kB in YAMC cells was inhibited by CORM-2.

It is obtained from the corms of a plant called konjac.

It does not cover, for instance, bulbs, corms, stolons, and rhizomes.

They are treated like the large corms, in the fall.

Some tubers are very bulb-like in appearance, as the corms of crocus and gladiolus.

In the interaction, fungal hyphae penetrate older, nutritive corms but not newly formed corms.

These small corms may be taken off in the spring and sown thickly in drills.