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Definition of Corms
1. corm [n] - See also: corm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corms
Literary usage of Corms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laboratory Manual of Horticulture by George William Hood (1915)
"EXERCISE XI A STUDY OF corms Material and apparatus. ... corms of the gladiolus,
showing the cornels, or the little corms, about the parent 1. ..."
2. Laboratory Manual for the Detection of Poisons and Powerful Drugs by Wilhelm Autenrieth, William Homer Warren (1915)
"Estimation of Colchicin in Colchicum Seed and corms (J. Katz and G. ...
Exhaust colchicum seed or corms with 60 per cent. alcohol and evaporate 50 grams of ..."
3. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"D. corms. — Most boys and girls who live in the country have tasted the Indian
... It grows from year to year and sometimes forms small corms as branches. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... hairy, plaited, standing edgewise to the stem. Low plants, of easy culture if
treated like freesias or hyacinths. Three or 4 corms ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Leaves parallel-nerved, solitary, or several and alternate, sometimes apparently
opposite or whorled. Perennials, often with corms or with ..."
6. An English Syntithology: In Three Books, Developing the Constructive by James Brown (1847)
"... those corms to which they are supplemental; as, Henry who wishes to see you,
is here, The Henries who wish to see you, are here. corms OF THE IMPUTATION ..."
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