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Corm vs Corb - What's the difference?

corm | corb |

As nouns the difference between corm and corb

is that corm is a short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought while corb is raven.

corm

English

Noun

(wikipedia corm) (en noun)
  • A short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.
  • Derived terms

    * cormel * cormlet

    corb

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A basket used in coal mines, etc.; a corf.
  • (architecture) An ornament in a building; a corbel.
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