corymbose
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of corymbose
1765–75; < New Latin corymbōsus, equivalent to corymb ( us ) corymb + -ōsus -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Spiraea.—Vigorous growing plants of great beauty, preferring good, deep, rather moist soil; the flowers small but very abundant, in large corymbose or spicate panicles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Somewhat hairy, corymbose, leafy; leaves ovate-oblong, thin.—Dry soil, Penn. to Ill. and Kan., and southward.
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
This is a robust species about a yard high, with large lanceolate leaves, and small, rosy-red flowers arranged in corymbose heads.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
The flowers are individually large and corymbose, and are succeeded by small green fruit.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
Flowers greenish-yellow, hermaphrodite, arranged in corymbose terminal cymes.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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