corymbose
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- corymbosely adverb
- subcorymbose adjective
- subcorymbosely adverb
Etymology
Origin of corymbose
1765–75; < New Latin corymbōsus, equivalent to corymb ( us ) corymb + -ōsus -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Seed erect.—A perennial herb, with alternate palmately-lobed leaves, and corymbose white flowers.
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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.
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The flowers are individually large and corymbose, and are succeeded by small green fruit.
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L. Dràba, L. Perennial, obscurely hoary; leaves oval or oblong, the upper with broad clasping auricles; flowers corymbose; pods heart-shaped, wingless, thickish, entire, tipped with a conspicuous style.—Astoria, near New York, D. C.
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Scales well imbricated, coriaceous, with short herbaceous mostly obtuse spreading tips; pappus of rigid bristles; stem-leaves all sessile, none heart-shaped or clasping; heads few, or when several corymbose, large and showy.
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