释义 |
cor·mid·i·um \kȯrˈmidēəm\ noun (plural cormid·ia \-ēə\) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kormos tree trunk + New Latin -idium : the entire body or colony of a compound animal; sometimes : one of the clusters of zooids usually consisting of a helmet-shaped bract, a gastrozooid, and one or more gonophores often functioning as swimming bells and arising from the main stem of a calycophoran — used chiefly of the Siphonophora |