corymbose

[ kuh-rim-bohs ]

adjective

1. characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.

Other Words From

• co·rymbose·ly adverb
• subco·rymbose adjective
• subco·rymbose·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of corymbose¹

1765–75; < New Latin corymbōsus, equivalent to corymb ( us ) corymb + -ōsus -ose ¹

Example Sentences

Seed erect.—A perennial herb, with alternate palmately-lobed leaves, and corymbose white flowers.

From Project Gutenberg

Spiraea.—Vigorous growing plants of great beauty, preferring good, deep, rather moist soil; the flowers small but very abundant, in large corymbose or spicate panicles.

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The flowers are individually large and corymbose, and are succeeded by small green fruit.

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L. Dràba, L. Perennial, obscurely hoary; leaves oval or oblong, the upper with broad clasping auricles; flowers corymbose; pods heart-shaped, wingless, thickish, entire, tipped with a conspicuous style.—Astoria, near New York, D. C.

From Project Gutenberg

Scales well imbricated, coriaceous, with short herbaceous mostly obtuse spreading tips; pappus of rigid bristles; stem-leaves all sessile, none heart-shaped or clasping; heads few, or when several corymbose, large and showy.

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