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How to pronounce corolla in English?

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Type of curl, curlicue, whorl, coil, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll


we cultivate the flower for its corolla.

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The flowers are white, yellow or red, with a five-lobed corolla 5-6 cm diameter.
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The flowers are white to purple, with a five-lobed corolla and yellow stamens.
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From the South in recent years has come a corolla of gifted young novelists.
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Corolla sales were down 23 percent, while Civic sales were off 26 percent.
From the delawareonline.com
Corolla fought on well to just hold off Steel Blue with Spicks and Specks running third.
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The corolla is two-lipped with four subequal lobes, the upper lobe usually the largest.
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Disc florets are usually actinomorphic, with five petal lips on the rim of the corolla tube.
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Corolla is produced in 16 countries and sold in more than 140.
From the cairns.com.au
Corolla has room for four, five in a pinch, if the fifth is small.
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  • (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the flower for its corolla"
  • A corolla is an ancient headdress made of a garland or wreath and worn as a small circlet or crown. Usually it has ceremonial significance and represents victory or authority.
  • 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
  • The ring of separate or fused petals which is nearly always responsible for the main floral display.
  • The second envelope of a flower usually composed of coloured, leaf-like organs (petals), which may be united by their edges either in the basal part or throughout.
  • The second lower most whorl of sterile parts of a flower, and each member is termed a petal
  • Collective term for petals; whorl of flower parts immediately inside or above calyx, often large and brightly colored. Sometimes indistinguishable from calyx.
  • The inner perianth, consisting of the petals, free or united.
  • The inner circle of floral leaves (petals), that are usually showy. The petals may be seperate or united. The corolla is always surrounded by a calyx.