Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of the shape of a salver or tray; hypocrateriform: noting a gamopetalous corolla with the limb spreading out flat, as in the primrose and phlox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See
hypocraterimorphous .
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Examples
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This unassuming pretty flower has a salver-shaped corolla; but in modelling it, I advise its being formed of five petals.
The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling Emma Peachey
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The salver-shaped corolla, which is white, pleasingly tinted with red, has a short tube and five divisions, curiously cornered; the flower is fully ¾in. across, and in its unopened state is hardly less pretty than when blown.
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The flowers, which are ¾in. across, are salver-shaped, pure white, excepting for a day or two when newly opened, then they are stained with
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Stafford near Dunrobin Castle in Sutherlandshire, in which the usual ringent form of the corolla was replaced by the form called salver-shaped.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Calyx of 5 dry overlapping sepals; corolla salver-shaped, the slender, hairy tube spreading into 5 equal lobes; 10 stamens; 1 pistil with a column-like style and a 5-lobed stigma.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Corolla salver-shaped, the tube long, square, throat bare, limb divided into 5 obovate parts, ending in stylets.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Corolla salver-shaped, persistent, with border having 4 small lobules.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Corolla white, twisted, cylindrical, with salver-shaped limb divided in 5 rhomboid lobes, throat stellate and woolly.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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The plant continues in blossom from June till the first frosts wither the leaves; it is far less coarse than the potatoe; the flower, when full blown, is about the size of a half crown, and quite flat; I think it is what you call salver-shaped: it delights in light loamy soil, growing on the upturned roots of fallen trees, where the ground is inclined to be sandy.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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