Množina: corms

Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure.
Swollen subterranean part of a stem
Swollen bulblike subterranean part of stem, bearing buds.
Short, swollen, underground plant stem, surrounded by protective scale leaves, as seen in the genus Crocus. It stores food, provides a means of vegetative reproduction, and acts as a perennating organ.
During the year, the corm gradually withers as the food reserves are used for the production of leafy, flowering shoots formed from axillary buds. Several new corms are formed at the base of these shoots, above the old corm.

Allan MacLeod 1924-1998 American (South African-born) physicist

(1926-)
US film director and producer. His low-budget, highly profitable films are mainly in the youth and science-fiction genres. One of the most consistently commercial filmmakers working outside the Hollywood studio system, Corman has over 200 films to his credit since 1954. Among his directed work was a series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, beginning with The House of Usher 1960.
Corman also fostered some of the leading names in cinema such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Jack Nicholson, who benefited from Corman's independent company New World Pictures, and later Concorde/New Horizons.

Množina: cormels

A small or secondary corm produced by a larger corm.

Like corms.

Množina: cormophytes

Plant with stem and root.

Množina: cormorants

ETYM French cormoran, from Armor. môr-vran a sea raven; môr sea + bran raven, with cor, equiv. to Latin corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perh. from Latin corvus marinus sea raven.
Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish; SYN. Phalacrocorax carbo.
Any of various diving seabirds, mainly of the genus Phalacrocorax, about 90 cm/3 ft long, with webbed feet, long neck, hooked beak, and glossy black plumage. There are some 30 species of cormorant worldwide, including a flightless form Nannopterum harrisi in the Galápagos Islands. Cormorants generally feed on fish and shellfish. Some species breed on inland lakes and rivers.

Having or producing corms; SYN. cormose.

Množina: cormous plants

Plant growing from a corm.