Corolla vs Papilionaceous - What's the difference?
corolla | papilionaceous |
(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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Having the form of a butterfly.
(botany) Having corolla with two wings resembling those of a butterfly.
Of, or pertaining to the Papilionaceae family of plants.
In botany terms the difference between corolla and papilionaceous
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 papilionaceous is having corolla with two wings resembling those of a butterfly.As a noun 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.As an adjective papilionaceous is
having the form of a butterfly.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.