noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A corm.
2. 2
   An organism made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk where the buds remain attached.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk of a tree with the boughs cut off”), from κείρω (keírō, “shear”).

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