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Webster 1913 Edition

Corymb

Cor′ymb

(k?r′?mb or -?m; 220)
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Noun.
[L.
corymbus
cluster of flowers, Gr.
κόρυμβος
.]
(Bot.)
(a)
A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.
(b)
Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

Webster 1828 Edition

Corymb

CORYMB

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Noun.
[L. Gr.] Primarily, a top, head or cluster. In modern botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the lesser or partial flower-stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides, and though of unequal length, rise to the same height, so as to form an even surface; as in spiraea opulifolia, scurvy-grass, &c.

Definition 2024

corymb

corymb

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Noun

corymb ‎(plural corymbs)

  1. (botany) a cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top

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From the French corymbe, from the Latin corymbus, from the Ancient Greek κόρυμβος ‎(kórumbos).

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