We cultivate the flower for its corolla. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I am very curious where in corolla this was, in front of which sub-division. From Wordnik.com. [Video Report: Shark Kills Outer Banks Swimmer] Reference
The flowers are four-parted, the calyx resembling a corolla, which is usually absent. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The wood is gradually formed from this; and according to Linneus, the corolla is a continuation of it. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
The corolla is the flower, popularly so called; its parts, which are sometimes distinct and sometimes united in various ways, are termed petals. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
The straws resemble a flower from the region, called centropogon nigricans, which has a funnel-like neck called a corolla, at the base of which is its nectar. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Will be in corolla area. From Wordnik.com. [Headed to the Outer Banks of NC for the week. What are my best bets to put som fish on the dinner table?] Reference
Diplotaxis Flower, Pistil, calyx inflorescence and corolla. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In what are termed monochlamydeous flowers both calyx and corolla are wanting, as in. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
~ -- Name and point out the parts of the flower (calyx, corolla, pollen boxes, seed cases). From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The velvety feeling of the corolla and the delicate perfume are likewise sensed by the pupils. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
This deficiency of the corolla is frequently, but not invariably, associated with an increased fertility. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
See, there is the water-primrose, now in flower, with its delicate pink corolla and bright orange centre. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
They next trace the course of the coloured lines on the corolla and find that they all point into the cave. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Using the names calyx and corolla, describe the circle of flower leaves as to number, colour, and relative position. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The colour of the adventitious segments was paler on the outside than on the inner surface, as in the corolla itself. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Linné remarks that many plants which, in warm latitudes, produce a corolla, do not do so when grown in colder climates. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
= Not persistent; applied to leaves that fall in autumn and to calyx and corolla when they fall off before the fruit develops. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
It is the globe flower, so called from the rounded shape of the corolla; it is one of the buttercup family, as you will, perhaps, guess. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Imperfect development of the whole or of some of the constituent parts is more common in the case of the corolla than in that of the calyx. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Stafford near Dunrobin Castle in Sutherlandshire, in which the usual ringent form of the corolla was replaced by the form called salver-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Dialysis of margins of individual parts, 70 -- Of margins of parts of same whorl-calyx, 70 -- Of corolla, 71 -- Of stamens, 73 -- Of carpels, 73. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
These excrescences occur sometimes on the inner surface of the petals, or of the corolla; at other times on the outer surface, as in some gloxinias, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In some few instances the calyx is not at all altered, but the carpellary leaf is trifoliolate, or even quinquefoliolate, the corolla being then absent. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Occupying the place of the other lobes of the pistil was an oblong woolly flower-bud, consisting of calyx, corolla, and stamens, but with no trace of pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Occasionally in prolified flowers the parts of the corolla, like those of the calyx, become foliaceous, and in the case of proliferous pears fleshy and succulent. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
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