How to Use corm in a Sentence

corm

noun
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  • After the bloom, the corm weighs about 7 pounds, Chryst said.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Chryst said the greenhouse team can predict roughly when the blooms will happen by weighing the corm.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Once its about 40 pounds, the corm has enough energy to bloom and put off its powerful rancid smell.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Banana plants form colonies of plants by creating offshoots, or suckers from the plant’s main base corm.
    — oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Braunreiter will take a little piece of tissue from the corm (underground plant stem) or leaf of the plant and send it to the Chicago Botanic Gardens.
    — Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2021
  • Dig up corms and tubers of gladioli, dahlias and tuberous begonias after the foliage dies.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 20 Oct. 2017
  • This cycle repeats for about 3 to 5 years before the original corm decays, leaving behind new bulbs to be planted.
    — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Technically, a crocus comes from a corm not a bulb, but they are treated similarly.
    — Nicole Bradley, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Math about saffron: One corm typically produces one flower, which in turn yields three stigmas.
    — Dennis Peck | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Plant up several corms every few days to stagger their flowering.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The Colocasia esculenta is the taro, an important food plant around the globe that is harvested mostly for its tuber-like corm, though the leaves and stalks are also eaten.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • Now the snail, capable of laying as many as 1,200 of its bright pink eggs each week, infests taro patches on almost every island, leaving holes in the corms and eating the tender shoots, doubling farm labor and depressing yields.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • After all, many fields were already planted with the perennial corms by generations past and had simply fallen into disuse.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Flowers to start from seed: Dianthus, larkspur, stock, asters, nicotiana, cleome, annual ice plant, zinnia, salpiglossis, snaps, cosmos, lupine, malva. Tubers and corms: Start tuberous begonias and dahlias.
    — Jeff Lowenfels | Alaska Gardening and Growing, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There’s information on vegetable and fruit gardens, wooded areas, bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes; goldfish ponds, perennial borders, conifers, winter gardens and seeds.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Despite promising results, there are some apprehensions among farmers, as the saffron corm recommended for indoor cultivation is quite large, weighing more than 10 grams.
    — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Tuberous begonia corms were not traditionally re-planted until April.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • 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.
    — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Southern California Plant summer-blooming bulbs, corms, and tubers, including acidanthera, agapanthus, tuberous begonias, caladiums, calla lilies, dahlias, daylilies, gladiolus, iris, ixia, montbretias, tiger flowers, tuberoses, and watsonias.
    — Thad Orr, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018

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