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Webster 1913 Edition


Cormophyta

{

Cor′mo-phytes

(kôr′mō̍-fīts)
, ‖

Cor-moph′y-ta

(kŏr-mŏf′ĭ-tȧ)
, }
Noun.
pl.
[NL.
cormophyta
, fr. Gr.
κορμόσ
trunk of a tree +
φυτόν
plant.]
(Bot.)
A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.