caudex

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An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water
{n} the part of a plant which connects the roots with the leaves
a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant
woody stem of palms and tree ferns
{i} thick trunk of a tree (mainly of palms)
esp
The stem of a tree
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    () From Latin caudex (“tree trunk”, “tree stem”); compare codex.“” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary