Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds.
- noun The little calyx-like body which crowns the nucule in the genus Chara.
- noun The crown of spines which sometimes occurs at the apex of the frustule in diatoms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See
pappus .
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- noun botany A
coronet or littlecrown of aseed ; thedowny tuft on seeds.
Etymologies
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Latin coronula, diminutive of corona crown.
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bestiary commented on the word coronule
the coronet (little crown) of downy tufts on seeds (as on dandelions). see pappus.
July 24, 2008