Corolla vs Cv - What's the difference?
corolla | cv |
(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.
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The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Cape Verde.
As a noun corolla
is (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.As an abbreviation cv is
.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.