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- noun botany Any of the
genus Coronilla ofplants related to theclover , having theirflowers arranged in littleheads ortufts resemblingcoronets .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm leaning towards crown toadstools (Stropharia coronilla).
Heard By a Bird in Phonecia, New York Sparrow 2009
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The hillsides are a labyrinth of box and arbutus, with coronilla in golden bloom.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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The hill-sides are a labyrinth of box and arbutus, with coronilla in golden bloom.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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Golden broom mixes with the dark purple of the great French lavender, and over the whole mass of blossom wave plumes of Mediterranean heath and sweet-scented yellow coronilla.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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The hillsides are a labyrinth of box and arbutus, with coronilla in golden bloom.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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On the right rises the hillside, clothed with myrtle, lentisk, cistus, and pale yellow coronilla -- a tangle as sweet with scent as it is gay with blossom.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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On the right rises the hillside, clothed with myrtle, lentisk, cistus, and pale yellow coronilla -- a tangle as sweet with scent as it is gay with blossom.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Golden broom mixes with the dark purple of the great French lavender, and over the whole mass of blossom wave plumes of Mediterranean heath and sweet-scented yellow coronilla.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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¡Y que a ti te metan un palo por el cuerpo, y te saquen asi a la vergüenza, teniéndote en alto hasta que, con el peso de tu cuerpo, el palo salga por encima de la coronilla y quedes patiabierto en el suelo, como
Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862
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Here had been heath; there coronilla; here -- oh, here was _still_ the wallflower!
A Red Wallflower Susan Warner 1852
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