corymb
IPA: kˈɔrim
noun
- (botany) A cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top.
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Examples of "corymb" in Sentences
- Flowers hite flowers grouped in a corymb.
- The inflorescence of ashy hydrangea is a corymb.
- The inflorescence of silver hydrangea is a corymb.
- The inflorescence of smooth hydrangea is a corymb.
- Axillary flowers pale yellow, up to more than 10 in a corymb.
- The flowers grow in a panicle or corymb type of inflorescence.
- The flowers are yellow green, produced in small pendulous corymbs.
- For example, heads or umbels may be arranged in a corymb or a panicle.
- Small white flowers occur in a terminal corymb from November to January.
- The flower heads are arranged in loosely, a cross between umbel and corymb.
- Joe-Pye-Weed strode along with his dull pink corymb proudly elevated above the throng.
- When cutting these flowers, the whole corymb should be taken, as in this particular case we could not wish for
- Flowers white, tinged with red, disposed in a small terminal corymb, standing upon nodding peduncles and appearing in June and July.
- The stem by which the flower is supported unites at the head of the primary branches into thick, short, irregular bundles, in the form of a corymb.
- Nevertheless I succeeded in finding it about eight miles west of the Falls; touched it and smelled it, and secured a lingering corymb of flowers for my herbarium.
- _Flower-heads_ -- Bright yellow, 1 to 2 in. across, numerous, borne on long peduncles in corymb-like clusters; the rays 3 to 5 cleft, and drooping around the yellow or yellowish-brown disk.
- It is a perennial herb with short rootstocks and stout stems bearing numerous short-peduncled heads in large compact corymb; it multiplies itself abundantly by seeds and is very common on the sand dunes of Holland.
- In the apple I have observed leafy shoots bearing terminal tufts of leaves where the flower should have been, so that what, under ordinary circumstances would be a corymb of flowers, is here represented by a series of tufts of leaves.
- 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.
- In dry, open woodlands, thickets, and roadsides, from August to October, we find the dainty White Wood Aster (_A. divaricatus_) -- _A. corymbosus_ of Gray -- its brittle zig-zag stem two feet high or less, branching at the top, and repeatedly forked where loose clusters of flower-heads spread in a broad, rather flat corymb.
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