[mod.L.: see CORM.]

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  1.  = CORM, q.v.

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  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.

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1878.  Bell, Gegenbaur’s Comp. Anat., 93. Colonies (cormi) are formed from single animals by gemmation.

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1880.  Packard, Zool. (1881), 181. A cormus, polyzoarium or polyzoon-stock is formed by the budding of numerous cells from the one first formed.

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