cormus

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In botany, same as corm.
• noun In zoology, the common stock of a compound animal, as an ascidiarium, a zoanthodeme, and the like, when divided into colonies of zoöids, as may be variously effected by gemmation or other more or less complete division.
• noun In biology, a morphological individual or morphon of the fourth order, composed of two or more persons organically connected into a compound organism. A siphonophoran is a cormus in this sense, since its constituent members are persons; but a tree is not. Sometimes corm. See person, 8.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) See Corm.
• noun (Biol.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun botany A corm.
• noun biology 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 wherre the buds remain attached.