Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In hot., a crown or appendage of a corolla, commonly transformed into a nectary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
secondary orinner corolla ; acorona , as of theNarcissus .
Etymologies
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para- + corolla
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Examples
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The great pure white bloom, trumpet-shaped and crowned with its flaring and many-cleft paracorolla, distinct against the densely blue sky, seemed the more ethereal because of the delicacy of its stalk, so erect, so inflexibly upright.
A Chilhowee Lily 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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