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单词 corymb
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Definition of corymb in English:

corymb

noun ˈkɒrɪmb
Botany
  • A flower cluster whose lower stalks are proportionally longer so that the flowers form a flat or slightly convex head.

    this hybrid produces beautiful corymbs of white, pink-budded flowers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The genus has some species with single flowers, but most have racemes, corymbs or subumbels.
    • The small white flowers are borne in rather dense corymbs at the ends of the branches.
    • Button-like flowerheads, produced in corymbs or singly, are everlasting when dried.
    • As the photo shows, the corymbs bloom first around the edges and the center buds open last.
    • It was weighted down by enormous corymbs of what were by now large plump green seed capsules.

Derivatives

  • corymbose

  • adjective
    Botany
    • In its definitely corymbose inflorescence it apparently differs from both of these.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The flowers are several, large, blue, erect, borne in a terminal, corymbose panicle, on long footstalks.
      • Flowers are small, from pale - pink to purple, at the top of the stalk gathered into large corymbose panicle clusters.
      • White Syndrome for corymbose and tabular Acropora, in particular, results in high mortality.
      • Verticordia brownii is an erect, corymbose shrub 30-60 cm tall and 15-30 cm wide with tiny greyish to yellowish-green fleshy leaves, crowded on many short branchlets.

Origin

Early 18th century: from French corymbe or Latin corymbus, from Greek korumbos 'cluster'.

 
 

Definition of corymb in US English:

corymb

noun
Botany
  • A flower cluster whose lower stalks are proportionally longer so that the flowers form a flat or slightly convex head.

    this hybrid produces beautiful corymbs of white, pink-budded flowers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was weighted down by enormous corymbs of what were by now large plump green seed capsules.
    • The genus has some species with single flowers, but most have racemes, corymbs or subumbels.
    • The small white flowers are borne in rather dense corymbs at the ends of the branches.
    • Button-like flowerheads, produced in corymbs or singly, are everlasting when dried.
    • As the photo shows, the corymbs bloom first around the edges and the center buds open last.

Origin

Early 18th century: from French corymbe or Latin corymbus, from Greek korumbos ‘cluster’.

 
 
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