Corolla

Origin

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

Full definition of corolla

Noun

1. (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.
• 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 125: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.

Related terms

• corolline