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

I grab a huge corm, which we call the makua.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

The jack-in- the-pulpit root, or corm, tastes and looks like potato.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

This latter is the preparation still most generally used, though the presence of veratrine both in the corm and the seeds renders the use of colchicine itself theoretically preferable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various