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Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla.

That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.

Having a winged corolla somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of the bean and pea.

the order Geraniaceæ, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla.

The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.

One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.

A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of Ant: thrum-eyed.

A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.

Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. Martyn.

A corollary. Brande & C.

as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla (Bot.), one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. -- Proper fraction (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator. -- Proper nectary (Bot.), a nectary separat…

ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant (Houstonia cærulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish center; -- also called bluets, and little innocents.

Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.…

rply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.

halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.

lants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed. -- Ray point (Geom.), the common point of a pencil of rays. -- Röntgen ray ( (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by…

Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.