coronilla Bot.
(kɒrəˈnɪlə)
[mod.L. (Tournefort Inst. Rei Herb. (1700) 650), dim. of L. corona (see corona).]
A member of a genus of shrubs or herbs so called, which belongs to the family Leguminosæ and includes plants bearing mostly yellow flowers in umbels.
| 1793 Curtis's Bot. Mag. VI. 185 (caption) Rue-Leaved Coronilla. 1873 Young Englishwoman Jan. 30/2 Some..of the following plants should be in flower..coronillas, jasminum nudiflorum..in addition to zonale and other geraniums. 1917 H. Monro Strange Meetings 28 Coronilla! Coronilla! Heavy yellow tepid bloom. 1933 R. Aldington All Men are Enemies i. xi. 102 Mediterranean pines and twisted oaks and chestnuts stood among a magnificence of arbutus, giant white heath, yellow coronilla. 1961 R. W. Butcher Brit. Flora I. 617 This Purple Coronilla is a stout, much-branched, straggling, glabrous perennial. |