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
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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
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
Flowers yellow, terminal in a sort of corymb.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Rather tall; leaves somewhat fleshy, lyrate or pinnate, the divisions or leaflets crenate or cut-lobed, variable; heads small in a naked corymb; rays 6–12, conspicuous.—Wet grounds, N. Car. to S. Ill.,
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
It has a rosette of root-leaves, from which rises a naked scape bearing a corymb of largish white flowers.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
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