corm

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The Konjac, commonly known as the corm-like tuber of Amorphophallus Konjac C. Korch, is a perennial plants native of warm tropical to tropical regions, eastern Asia, from Japan and south of China to Indonesia.

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  1. noun A short thick solid food-storing underground stem, sometimes bearing papery scale leaves, as in the crocus or gladiolus.

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  • I gulped, swallowing some kind of sudden lump big as an iris corm, and began to recount my life history. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 05 - May 2002
  • The Konjac, commonly known as the corm-like tuber of Amorphophallus Konjac C. Korch, is a perennial plants native of warm tropical to tropical regions, eastern Asia, from Japan and south of China to Indonesia. —  NutraIngredients-USA RSS
  • Relying on modern equipments, advanced technology, optimal manufacturing process, and strict quality control, we extract its natural active properties from its corm-like Tubers, and standardized it to assay. —  NutraIngredients-USA RSS
  • Like on salary. corm, the listed job and the job as described are two different categories all together, but supposedly you segue into the real job description after three months or so.
  • : For as much as I love the aroma of kettle corm, Microwaved corn makes me ill. —  Accidental Hedonist
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  1. New Latin cormus, from Greek kormos, a trimmed tree trunk; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from New Latin cormus, from Greek κορμός, the trunk of a tree with the boughs lopped off, from κείρειν (√ *κερ, *κορ), cut, lop, shear: see shear.
 

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