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CORYMBUS

Volume 5 · 57 words · 1797 Edition

properly signifies a cluster of ivy berries. Among botanists, it is a mode of flowering in which the lesser or partial flower-stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides; and, though of unequal lengths, rise to the same height, so as to form a flat and even surface at the top. See Botany, p. 273.