Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CORM'US, n. [Gr. κορμος.]

1. In botany, the generic name of a stalk or stem of any plant. – DeCand. Willd.
2. The dilated base of the stems of monocotyledonous plants intervening between the root and the first buds, and forming the reproductive portion of such plants, when they are not caulescent. – Lindley.