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Definition of Cormlike
1. corm [adj] - See also: corm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cormlike
Literary usage of Cormlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1896)
"This species has a cormlike root. *Cyperus vaginatus, R. Brown. Cyperus subulatus,
R. Br. (1). NB—There is a cyperus species growing here which, however, ..."
2. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"Flowering very early in the spring; bulb cormlike. 1. Erythronium albidum, Nutt.
(L., albidus, whitish.) WHITE DOGTOOTH VIOLET. ..."
3. Flora of the District of Columbia and Vicinity by Albert Spear Hitchcock (1919)
"Plants perennial, hard and cormlike at base or stoloniferous. ... Plants not
stoloniferous; culms cormlike at base; spikelets in subglobose heads, ..."
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