Definition of Corymbose

1. Adjective. Resembling a corymb.

Partainyms: Corymb

Definition of Corymbose

1. a. Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.

Definition of Corymbose

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corymbose

corybantes
corybantiasm
corybantic
corybants
corydaline
corydalines
corydalis
corydalises
corydoras
corylophyline
coryluses
corymb
corymbed
corymbiferous
corymbiform
corymbose (current term)
corymbose syphilid
corymbosely
corymbous
corymbs
corynanthidine
corynebacterial
corynebacteriophage
corynebacterium
corynebacterium diphtheriae
corynebacterium infections
corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
corynebacterium pyogenes
coryneform
coryphaei

Literary usage of Corymbose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1812)
"Rose-coloured, repeatedly branched, corymbose, slender and tufted. ... From the latter, nevertheless, its much shorter joints, corymbose rounded figure, ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... small and numerous, densely corymbose, Imbricated with many short appressed downy rigid ovate or lanceolate bracts; calyx-teeth short and triangular. ..."

3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Flowers on slender pedicels, in lax compound trichotomous pedunculate glabrous corymbose terminal and axillary cymes. Corolla-tube -J- in. long, ..."

4. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"Flowers corymbose. The specimens distributed by Dr Wallich, as n. 837, b, do not correspond to that letter at p. 213, but to " 2, Penang," at p. ..."

5. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"... but forming corymbose clusters when they first begin to expand ; common peduncle 1 —3 inches, the partial 2—3 lines long. Calyx 4-leaved, deciduous; ..."

6. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... upper ones corymbose : scales of the involucre linear, acute, glabrous, as long as the disk: flowers yellowish, females numerous, style exserted, ..."

7. Manual of the Flora of Jackson County, Missouri by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Benjamin Franklin Bush (1902)
"Heads corymbose. Involucral bracts small, in about one series. Disk globular. Rays several, 3-5-lobed, fertile. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrate. 1. ..."

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