Corolla vs Coralla - What's the difference?
corolla | coralla |
(botany) An outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 125:
As nouns the difference between corolla and coralla
is that corolla is an outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused while coralla is plural of corallum.corolla
English
Noun
- Our wet fingers touched and we formed a circle like the corolla of a flower, floating into the silence of the desert dawn with the ancient sun on our bodies.