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Corymb   Listen
noun
Corymb  n.  (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.






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"Corymb" Quotes from Famous Books



... Anthony's Falls, I was sorry to be told that I was too far north for the Crab-Apple. Nevertheless I succeeded in finding it about eight miles west of the Falls; touched it and smelled it, and secured a lingering corymb of flowers for my herbarium. This must have ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau



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