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Same as Cormus, 2.

The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.

A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

Ravenous; voracious. Cormorant, devouring time. Shak.

See Corm.

s it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

A corm.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

See Cormorant.

A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europæum.

The European cormorant.

Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has been recently substituted. See Idorgan.

The cormorant. [Prov. Eng.]

tc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. Haeckel. True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. Encyc. Brit. Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation…

An aërial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.

le) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.