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Webster 1913 Edition


Cormus

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Cor′mus

(kôr′mŭs)
,
Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
κορμόσ
the trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off), fr.
κείρειν
to shear.]
1.
(Bot.)
See
Corm
.
2.
(Biol.)
A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.