The body of a plant that is composed of roots, stems, and leaves organized together as an integrated structure; also used in zoology for colonial organisms.
From Greek 'kormos' meaning 'tree trunk' or 'stem,' referring to the organized trunk-like central structure of complex organisms.
Botanists borrowed the term cormus from zoology where it described colonial animal bodies like coral—recognizing that both complex plants and colonial animals share the same 'integrated body plan' concept was a genuinely innovative insight.
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