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corymb|ˈkɒrɪmb|
Formerly in L. form corymbus, pl. -i.
[a. F. corymbe, ad. L. corymbus, a. Gr. κόρυµβος head, top, cluster of fruit or flowers, esp. of ivy-berries; with Pliny, also the capitulum or close head of a composite flower.]
1. Bot. A species of inflorescence; a raceme in which the lower flower-stalks are proportionally longer, so that the flowers are nearly on a level, forming a flat or slightly convex head.
By writers before the time of Linnæus, corymbus was applied to the discoidal head of a composite flower: see Ray Hist. Plants (1686) I. ii.
[1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Corymbus..among Modern Herbalists, is us'd for a compounded discous Flower, whose Seeds are not Pappous, or do not fly away in Down.] 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 567 Lepidium petræum..Flowers in a close corymbus. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 393 The purple corymbs of the Asters. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 321 The modern corymb must not be confounded with that of Pliny, which was analogous to our capitulum. 1861Mrs. Lankester Wild Flowers 75 Sea Aster..The flower-heads are in a compact corymb.
b. transf. (Zool.) Used of a group of zoophytes.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 173 A whole corymb or hemispherical group.
¶2. A cluster of ivy-berries or grapes. (Not an Eng. sense.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Corymbus, a Bunch, or Cluster of Ivy-berries. 1849De Quincey Eng. Mail-Coach Wks. IV. 347 Gorgeous corymbi from vintages. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xii. 408 Ivy branches..surround its [a mirror's] rim with a delicate tracery of sharp cut leaf and corymb. |