corolla

Meanings

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   noun

   the petals of a flower considered collectively, usually forming a whorl inside the calyx

   The bee pushed deep into the tubular corolla to reach the nectar.

Borrowed from Latin corolla, 'small garland or wreath,' the diminutive of corona, 'crown, garland.' Botanists applied the image of a little crown to the ring of petals surrounding a flower's reproductive parts.

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