Corolla Definition

kə-rōlə, -rŏlə
corollas
noun
The petals, or inner floral leaves, of a flower.
Webster's New World

Origin of Corolla

  • From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin corōlla small garland diminutive of corōna garland corona

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

Corolla Sentence Examples

  • The corolla has from five to nine petals, cohering at the base.

  • Corolla split open.

  • The branches and corolla are purple, the fruit woolly.

  • In very many cases the pollen is carried to the stigma by elongation, curvature or some other movement of the filament, the style or stigma, or corolla or some other part of the flower, or by correlated movements of two or more parts.

  • The corolla is tubular with a spreading limb, and varies widely in colour, being white, yellow, orange, crimson, scarlet, blue or purple.

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