Dictionary entry

Cormophytes

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Cor″mo‐phytes (kôr″mō̍‐fīts), ‖Cor‐moph″y‐ta (kŏr‐mŏf″ĭ‐tȧ), } n. pl. [NL. cormophyta, fr. Gr. κορμόσ trunk of a tree + φυτόν plant.] (Bot.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.