Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, relating to, having the characters of, or like a corymb. Also
corymbed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.
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- adjective botany Consisting of
corymbs , or resembling them in form.
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- adjective resembling a corymb
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Examples
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The flowers are inconspicuous, usually white or cream and pedunculate, ascending or erect, corymbose cymes, collected into a terminal leafless panicle, or the lower peduncles arising from the axis of reduced leaves.
Chapter 17 1987
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Fig. 206 represents a specimen of _Ranunculus acris_, in which the lower and lateral flower-stalks were not only increased in number, but so much lengthened as to form a flat-topped inflorescence -- a corymbose cyme.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The leaves are smooth, lance-shaped, and sharply toothed, fully 4in. long, and stalkless; they are irregularly but numerously disposed on the stout round stems, and of nearly uniform size and shape until the corymbose branches are reached, _i. e._, for 4ft. or
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Flowers large for this genus, in close, short racemes in a corymbose-paniculate cluster.
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These herb stalks above the snow, the corymbose heads of the yarrow, the spikes of the self-heal, the crosiers of the golden-rod, the panicles of the asters, the racemes of the Indian tobacco, the knotted threads of the blue vervain and the plantain, the miniature mandarin temples of the peppergrass -- all these have shed, or are shedding, myriads of seeds to be silently sepulchred under the snow until earth's easter April mornings.
Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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Flowers greenish-yellow, hermaphrodite, arranged in corymbose terminal cymes.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Its flowers appear in July or August they grow in terminal, corymbose umbels, and are of a most beautiful, brilliant, orange color, and is easily distinguished from all the flowers that adorn the fields.
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But as the flowers in this last plant are never strictly umbellate, and as I have met with specimens in which they are rather corymbose, I have no hesitation in referring Dampier's specimen, which many years ago I examined at Oxford, as well as Cunningham's, to
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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