A short, vertical, swollen, underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.

plural of corm

A male given name from Irish.

(archaic or obsolete) Voracious; aggressively greedy.

Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).

plural of cormorant

A cormorant that lives in the northern Pacific Ocean region, Phalacrocorax urile.

(now informal, botany) Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte

A sheep of a particular breed developed in Tasmania by crossing Corriedale rams with superfine Saxon Merino ewes.

plural of cormophyte