Noun: corolla
| Singular | corolla |
| Plural | corollas; corollae; corollæ |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 125:]
Nouns inflected like corolla
saliva,
sclera,
subpoena,
persona,
panacea,
amoebula,
cannula,
corolla,
hydrotheca,
scrofula,
fovea,
flora,
hydra,
testa,
vulva,
amebula,
ballista,
hyperbola,
infant formula,
endotesta, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”). See: Latin Nouns '
corōlla'.