Cormophyte
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte informal
"Very careful developmental or anatomical investigation may be required to show that the variously-constructed organs of many cormophytes are derived by the metamorphosis of the three primary organs, root, stem, and leaf, and to ascertain with which of these any particular structure is really homologous."
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More examples"Very careful developmental or anatomical investigation may be required to show that the variously-constructed organs of many cormophytes are derived by the metamorphosis of the three primary organs, root, stem, and leaf, and to ascertain with which of these any particular structure is really homologous."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”) -phyte (“plant”); see also corm (“swollen underground stem”), Latin cormus. By surface analysis, cormo- + -phyte.
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