Bot. [f. Gr. κορμός trunk, stem + -γενης produced: cf. acrogen.] = CORMOPHYTE; sometimes restricted to cryptogamic cormophytes or Acrogens.
1846. Lindley, Veg. Kingd., Introd. xlix.
1852. [see CORMOPHYTE].
1870. Bentley, Bot., 8. All plants, from the Mosses upwards … are therefore termed Cormogens or Cormophytes.
