corymb
Americannoun
noun
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An indeterminate inflorescence whose outer flowers have longer stalks than the inner flowers, so that together they form a round cluster that is rather flat on top. The outer flowers open before the inner ones. Yarrow and the hawthorn have corymbs.
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See illustration at inflorescence
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Etymology
Origin of corymb
1700–10; < Latin corymbus < Greek kórymbos head, top, cluster of fruit or flowers
Example Sentences
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The corymb and the umbel being more or less level-topped, bringing the flowers into a horizontal plane or a convex form, the ascending order of development appears as Centripetal.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Corymbose, in corymbs, or in the form of a corymb.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
The stem by which the flower is supported unites at the head of the primary branches into thick, short, irregular bundles, in the form of a corymb.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
Heads in a compound terminal corymb, not at all racemose 37–40 Heads small, mostly clustered in the axils of feather-veined leaves 3–7 Heads mostly large, in a terminal thyrse; leaves feather-veined.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Otherwise as Tussilago.—Perennial woolly herbs, with the leaves all from the rootstock, white-woolly beneath, the scape with sheathing scaly bracts, bearing heads of purplish or whitish fragrant flowers, in a corymb.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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