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CORMOUS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cormous plant mean? 

CORMOUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun CORMOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plant growing from a cormplay

  Familiarity information: CORMOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CORMOUS PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant growing from a corm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cormous plant" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cormous plant"):

star grass (any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America)


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