The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκορμός“trunk stripped of its boughs”
- English todaycormophyte
From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”) -phyte (“plant”); see also corm (“swollen underground stem”), Latin cormus. By surface analysis, cormo- + -phyte.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκορμός all →
cormcormo-cormoidcormusmacrocormicnanocormia
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