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Corolla

//kəˈɹoʊlə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "Corolla asked Miller if the two were friends following filming."

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Ellipsis of Toyota Corolla. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "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."

  3. 3
    (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth wordnet

Etymology

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

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