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COROLLA

Volume 7 · 48 words · 1860 Edition

(Lat. corolla, a little crown), in Botany, the most conspicuous part of a flower, surrounding the organs of reproduction, and composed of one or more flower-leaves called petals. According as there may be one, two, or three petals, the corolla is said to be monopetalous, dipetalous, tripetalous, &c.