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- noun Plural form of
corymb .
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Like the corymbs of splendid Orchid buried deep in the nurturing soil, lie the tormented corpses of the strange fruit that hung from southern poplar trees, with bulging eyes and twisted mouths, the scent of magnolia clean and fresh; the sudden smell of burning flesh.
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RUFA146, a single specimen of a new KENNEDYA was gathered there. 147 On the plains we found a curious new form of the genus DANTHONIA, much resembling wheat in ear148, and a new JASMINE, with a rich perfume, resembling I. LINEARE, but with short axillary corymbs of flowers.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Flowers are corymbs, pale yellowish white, fragrant, and generally appear from March to June.
Chapter 10 1996
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Flowers are corymbs, pale yellowish white, fragrant, and generally appear from March to June.
Chapter 38 1990
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They bear much-divided, oval, oblong leaves and numerous small, yellow flower-heads in usually crowded corymbs.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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The smaller corymbs are arched or convex, causing the cluster or compound corymb to present an uneven surface; the small flowers are of rich old gold colour, and have the appearance of knotted gold cord; they are very rigid, almost hard.
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Sometimes they grow in clusters and corymbs, gleaming with a pure, translucent color that fluctuates and changes in the light
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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_C.r. albus_ is a white-flowering kind of the above; its main points of difference are its paler green foliage, smaller sized corymbs, shorter growth, and rather later season of bloom.
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The rather large, greenish-yellow flowers, borne in corymbs or short terminal clusters, appear all summer.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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Its stem is from two to three feet high; the leaves are finely cut and divided, twice-toothed on the margin, and of a rich, deep-green color; flowers in corymbs, deep-yellow, and produced in great abundance; the seeds are small, of a brownish color, and retain their vitality three years.
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