Corydalis Definition

kə-rĭdl-ĭs
noun
Any of a genus (Corydalis) of plants of the fumitory family, with spurred yellow, rose, blue, or purple flowers.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Corydalis
  • genus Corydalus
  • Corydalus

Other Word Forms of Corydalis

Noun

Singular:
corydalis
Plural:
corydalises

Origin of Corydalis

  • New Latin Corydalis genus name from Greek korudallis crested lark (from the shape of the flowers) from korudos ker-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Corydalis Sentence Examples

  • Of four genera which Hooker singles out as the largest in Sikkim, in China Corydalis has 76 species, Saxifraga 58, Pedicularis 129, and Primula 77.

  • Some American genera (Corydalis) which belong to this family are gigantic among insects and their males possess enormous mandibles.

  • In America there are two genera, Corydalis and Chauliodes, which are remarkable for their relatively gigantic size and for the immense length and sabre-like shape of the mandibles.

  • Thus in Dicentra and Corydalis there are six stamens in two bundles; the central one of each bundle alone is perfect, the lateral ones have each only half an anther, and are really stipules formed from the staminal leaf.

  • In Valeriana, Antirrhinum and Corydalis, the spur is very short, and the corolla or petal is said to be gibbous, or saccate, at the base.

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