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  • Cormlet

    Cormlet

    Diminutive of corm, a solid, bulb-like stem, usually underground. A small corm that grows from around the base of a corm, usually in fair numbers and used for propagation. A small corm that grows from around the base of a corm, often numerous and able to be used for propagation.  

  • Cormel

    Cormel

    A new corm produced from a parent corm.  

  • Corm

    Corm

    Short underground swollen stem, a storage stem. Bulblike, underground storage organ formed by a swollen stem base. Swollen, usually spherical or rounded underground stem, capable of producing a new plant. Modified underground stem base, fleshy and globose, bearing scaly leaves and bulbs. The fleshy, bulblike, solid base of a stem, often rising out of a…

  • Corky

    Corky

    With the consistency of cork.  

  • Cork

    Protective tissue replacing the epidermis in the older parts of some plants, this tissue is elastic and impervious to liquids.  

  • Coriaceous

    Leathery, tough.  

  • Cordulate

    (Of leaf base) a little cordate [unusual term, to be avoided].  

  • Cordiform

    Cordiform

    Shaped like a heart in two or three dimensions.  

  • Cordate

    Cordate

    (Of the base of a leaf) deeply notched so the whole base has a slight heart-shape; Sometimes used for the shape of the whole leaf, which is then ovate with a notched base and an acute apex. Heart-shaped in outline. Heart-shaped; when used for a leaf base, it is deeply notched so that the base…

  • Coppice shoot

    New branches arising from a cut-back trunk or from the lower trunk (often with foliage different from normal foliage).  

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