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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.] 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.