Corms is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 59 anagrams from letters in corms (cmors).
1820-30; New Latin cormus Greek kormós a tree trunk with boughs lopped off, akin to keírein to cut off, hew
It has acrid properties, but its corm yields a starch which is known by the name of Portland sago or arrowroot.
In the "corm" then, it is the disc, and not the scale-leaves, that is the great storehouse of food.
Colchicum, kol′chi-kum, n. a genus of Liliace—the meadow saffron, its corm or seed used for gout and rheumatism.
One ramus (the endopodite) alone developed—the original axis or corm serving as its basal joint with or without gnathobase.
By cutting a "corm" through the centre lengthwise, a great difference, however, will be noticed in the structure.
corm of a Crocus, the investing sheaths or dead leaf-bases stripped off.
In the "corm," on the other hand, the "disc" is the all-important feature, and is devoid of any thick scale-leaves upon it.
They tend to rise out of the ground, because the new bulb or corm forms on the top of the old one.
When a corm commences to grow, the reserve material within it is used up for the benefit of the flowers and leaves.
Then cut off each stalk about two inches from its junction with the corm.