Cor"mus (k?r"m?s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. the trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off), fr. 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.
© Webster 1913.