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Definition of Corymbs
1. corymb [n] - See also: corymb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corymbs
Literary usage of Corymbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"corymbs 7-12-flowered ; flowers about Í.5 cm. broad ; fruit with less prominent
calyx, ... Eggleston has densely villous corymbs, fruits slightly villous, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"13. species; It combines the broader corymbs of the latter with the brighter
color of the first species, therefore handsomer than either parent; ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"is supposed to be a hybrid of this and the foregoing species; it combines the
broader corymbs of the latter with the brighter color of the first species, ..."
4. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"4, glabrous, leave? broadly ovate or orbicular obtuse crenate glaucous beneath,
petiole slender, corymbs in lax spreading: ..."
5. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1921)
"Flowers pink, about 1 inch across on short, usually smooth pedicels in several-
to many-flowered corymbs. Fruit globular with a very short neck. ..."
6. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Corolla tubular, limb erect ; corymbs without bracts . 6. ... Flowers small, in
large, compound, nearly umbellate corymbs ; corolla white, rotate, ..."
7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"corymbs nearly glabrous ; lobes reflexed. corymbs very pubescent ; lobes ascending.
... corymbs and fruit nearly glabrous. corymbs and fruit very tomentose. ..."
8. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Flowers in large fastigiate corymbs, white. The whole plant is bitter and is used
as a tonic. Big. Mai. Bot. i. 33. Boneset. ..."
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