Having a corm or corm-like structure; characteristic of plants that reproduce or store energy using corms.
From corm plus the Latin suffix -ous (meaning 'having' or 'characterized by'), literally 'having corms.' Common botanical adjective formation.
Gardeners have accidentally created entire markets for cormous plants—crocus, gladiolus, and freesia are all cormous, and people buy millions of them yearly without realizing they're propagating the same way ancient plants did thousands of years ago.
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