corm
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They were tantalized by images circulating online, purportedly taken by locals, that depict a towering banana corm, several stories high, with leaves about 5 yards long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2017
The corm is used by gladiolus and garlic.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The jack-in- the-pulpit root, or corm, tastes and looks like potato.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
I grab a huge corm, which we call the makua.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
In all cases the appendages primarily develop rami or branches which form the limbs, the primitive axis or corm being reduced and of insignificant size.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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