noun

• A flower cluster whose lower stalks are proportionally longer so that the flowers form a flat or slightly convex head.

  ‘this hybrid produces beautiful corymbs of white, pink-budded flowers’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The genus has some species with single flowers, but most have racemes, corymbs or subumbels.’
  • ‘As the photo shows, the corymbs bloom first around the edges and the center buds open last.’
  • ‘The small white flowers are borne in rather dense corymbs at the ends of the branches.’
  • ‘It was weighted down by enormous corymbs of what were by now large plump green seed capsules.’
  • ‘Button-like flowerheads, produced in corymbs or singly, are everlasting when dried.’