Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The petals of a flower considered as a group or unit and usually of a color other than green; the inner whorl of the perianth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the envelop of a flower, within the calyx and immediately surrounding the stamens and pistil, usually of delicate texture and of some other color than green, and forming the most conspicuous part of the flower.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called
petals . It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note underblossom .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany An outermost-but-one
whorl of a flower, composed ofpetals , when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (thecalyx ); it usually comprises thepetal , which may be fused.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am very curious where in corolla this was, in front of which sub-division.
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I am very curious where in corolla this was, in front of which sub-division.
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Flowers – light blue, small, on a one-sided raceme, coiled up at the tip and unfolding as the flowers open – calyx five-lobed – corolla is round and flat, or salver shaped – stamens five – there is a white species of the flower.
Flower Stories 1903
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The straws resemble a flower from the region, called centropogon nigricans, which has a funnel-like neck called a corolla, at the base of which is its nectar.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The salver-shaped corolla, which is white, pleasingly tinted with red, has a short tube and five divisions, curiously cornered; the flower is fully ¾in. across, and in its unopened state is hardly less pretty than when blown.
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The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top.
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The flowers are four-parted, the calyx resembling a corolla, which is usually absent.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The corolla is the flower, popularly so called; its parts, which are sometimes distinct and sometimes united in various ways, are termed petals.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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The wood is gradually formed from this; and according to Linneus, the corolla is a continuation of it.
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Above the calyx is a broad spreading corolla which is white or brightly colored and is divided into several distinct parts called petals.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
bilby commented on the word corolla
You'd have to assume that a definition the waxes about the gayness of its colours wasn't written recently.
July 21, 2021