‖ cormus
[mod.L.: see corm.]
1. = corm, q.v.
2. Haeckel's name for the common stock of a plant or ‘colonial’ animal, bearing a number of individuals which originate by gemmation or budding; as applied to animals it is equivalent to polypidom.
| 1878 Bell Gegenbauer's Comp. Anat. 93 Colonies (cormi) are formed from single animals by gemmation. 1880 Packard Zool. (1881) 181 A cormus, polyzoarium or polyzoon stock is formed by the budding of numerous cells from the one first formed. |