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Corymb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points of the main stem to approximately the same height.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. 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.

n. Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In botany: Any flat-topped or convex open flower-cluster.

n. In a stricter and now the usual sense, a form of indeterminate inflorescence differing from the raceme only in the relatively shorter rachis and longer lower pedicels.

n. A hemispherical group of zoöphytes.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

inflorescence

Form

corymbiform