cormus

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.
• 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.

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.