corolla
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
corolla (plural corollas)
- (botany) An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 125:
- Our wet fingers touched and we formed a circle like the corolla of a flower, floating into the silence of the desert dawn with the ancient sun on our bodies.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 125:
- French: corolle
- German: Blumenkrone, Korolla, Krone
- Italian: corolla
- Portuguese: corola
- Russian: ве́нчик
- Spanish: corola
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