||Cor"mus (kôr"mŭs),
n. [NL., fr. Gr. kormo`s the trunk
of a tree (with the boughs cut off), fr. kei`rein 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.