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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.

Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.

e parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.

A scholium. A judgment which follows immediately from another is sometimes called a corollary, or consectary . . . One which illustrates the science where it appears, but is not an integral part of it, is a scholion. Abp. Thomson (Laws of Thought).

The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.

A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.

Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.

Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye. Spurred corolla (Bot.), a corolla in which there are one or more petals with a spur.

The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.

Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.

Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. Throat brails (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. -- Throat halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the…

la Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

s; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay.

The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.