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Definition of Corymb
1. Noun. Flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first.
Definition of Corymb
1. n. A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.
Definition of Corymb
1. Noun. (botany) a cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corymb
1. a flower cluster [n -S] : CORYMBED [adj]
Medical Definition of Corymb
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Corymb
Literary usage of Corymb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"The axis of a corymb is short in proportion to the lower pedicels. By extreme
shortening of the axis the corymb may be converted into 207. An Umbel (Fig. ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"They are the Raceme, corymb, and Umbel, with flowers raised ... And the term
corymbose or corymb-like is still much used in descriptive botany for a ..."
3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"A corymb (Fig. 202) is the same as a raceme, except that it is flat and broad
... That is, a raceme becomes a corymb by lengthening the lower pedicels while ..."
4. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"By a similar decomposition, a raceme becomes a compound raceme, a corymb a compound
corymb, &c. ... This inflorescence has the general aspect of the corymb, ..."
5. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"corymb, (Fig. 90, a,) or false umbel ; when the peduncles rise from different
heights above the main stem, but the lower ones being longer, they form nearly ..."
6. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Heads numerous, in a dense terminal fastigiate corymb; rays about 5, white or
rose-colored. It is sometimes employed as a tonic and astringent. ..."
7. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"... stalk and arranged loosely along the sides of a common stalk or central axis,
as in shepherd's purse and moth mullen; a corymb which is a flat-topped ..."
8. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"A smooth perennial ; the slender stem 3-8 dm. high, simple or branched from the
base, naked above, bearing small heads in a Hat-topped corymb. ..."
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