corolla

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corolla¹

  • /kəˈɹoʊlə/ US
  • /kəˈɹɑlə/ US
  • /kəˈɹəʊlə/ UK
  • /kəˈɹɒlə/ UK

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From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

noun corollas · corollae · corollæ

  1. The 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. 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.

Corolla²

proper noun

  1. A surname. Corolla asked Miller if the two were friends following filming.

noun Corollas

  1. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Toyota Corolla Over the decades – the Corolla model has been in production since 1966 – there have been some fun, high-performance versions of the compact car, though.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: gamopetalous, polypetalous, sympetalous, flower, monopetalous, bilabiate, ringent, zygomorphic, ligulate, papilionaceous, labiate, campanulate, personate, calyx, petal, carina

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Every language

noun whorl of a flower

Españolcorola
日本語花冠 kakan
中文花冠 huāguān
Portuguêscorola
Françaiscorolle
DeutschBlumenkrone, Korolla, Krone
Italianocorolla
Ελληνικάστεφάνη stefáni
Românăcorolă
Русскийве́нчик vénčik
العربيةتُوَيْج tuwayj, تاج tāj

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@misc{corolla_2026,
  title = {corolla},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/corolla},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}