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corymb

[ kawr-imb, -im, kor- ]

noun

Botany.
  1. a form of inflorescence in which the flowers form a flat-topped or convex cluster, the outermost flowers being the first to open.


corymb

/ ˈkɒrɪmb; -rɪm /

noun

  1. an inflorescence in the form of a flat-topped flower cluster with the oldest flowers at the periphery. This type of raceme occurs in the candytuft
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

corymb

/ ôĭ,-ĭ /

  1. 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.
  2. See illustration at inflorescence
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ⳾Dz, adverb
  • ˈǰ⳾, adjective
  • ˈ⳾Dz, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ǰy adjective
  • ǰyl adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of corymb1

1700–10; < Latin corymbus < Greek ó⳾Dz head, top, cluster of fruit or flowers
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of corymb1

C18: from Latin corymbus, from Greek korumbos cluster
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Example Sentences

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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.

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It has great corymbs of tiny white blossoms with tight little buff buds squeezing out among the open Roses.

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C. umbellata, 3 to 4 in., much branched, with narrow hairy leaves, and corymbs of magenta-crimson flowers in the summer months.

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Corymbose, in corymbs, or in the form of a corymb.

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Rounded corymbs of these flowers on short side twigs cover the tree with a robe of white after the leaves appear.

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