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[Lat. corn(us) = a cornel-tree; and Eng. suff. -in ( Chem.) (q. v.).] Chem.: A crystalline bitter substance extracted from the root of Cornus florida . The bark of this tree is used as a febrifuge. It is also called cornic IMG:content-0983.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0984.png:[blocks in formation] [Lat.= the horn of plenty: cornu=a horn; copia =plenty.] 1. Antiq . ( of the two forms ): The horn of plenty; a horn wreathed and filled to overflowing with flowers, fruit, corn, . It was the symbol of plenty, peace, and concord. It was fabled to have been a gift from Jupiter to his nurse, the goat A mal the a. It was a frequent attribute of Ceres. "A cornucopia fill'd her weaker hand, Charg'd with the various offspring of the land, Fruit, flowers, and corn." cor-nu-li-tēş, s. [Lat. cornu =a horn, and Gr. lithos =astone.] Palæont.: A genus of Silurian Annelids, order Tubicola. Cornu lites serpularius is a cosmopolite Silurian fo il, ranging from Sweden to North America, and ascending from a low position in the Llandeilo formation to the very summit of the Ludlow rocks. Murchison considered it a fo il very distinctive of the Silurian formation. ( Mur- chis on: Siluria .) cor-nus, s. [Lat. cornus, cornum =(1) a cornel- cherry, a dogwood tree, (2) a javelin made of cor- nel-wood; from cornu a horn, the name being given on account of the hardne of the wood.] order Cornacese (q. v.). Calyx, four-toothed; petals, 1. Bot .: A genus of plants, the typical one of the four superior; stamens, four. Fruit, drupaceous, two-celled, two-seeded. Cornus sanguine a has an arborescent stem, five to six feet high, with straight branches, the older ones dark red, the strongly- nerved leaves, which are opposite, at first green on both sides, becoming dark red before they fall; the inflorescence consisting of cymes studded with numerous white flowers; no involucre. It is found in woods and thickets, especially on a chalk or limestone soil. The Dwarf Cornel, C. suecica, is a herbaceous plant about six inches sustaining the cornish ."_ high, with opposite se ile leaves, inflorescence umbellate, with few flowers. Four-leaved petal oid involucre present. A creeping plant, grow ing in alpine pastures. Its berries are said to be tonic and to have the quality of increasing the ap- petite. The barks of Cornus florida , C. sericea , and C. circinata are used in this country as substitutes for Peruvian bark in intermittent fevers; the young branches of the first-named plant stripped of their bark and rubbed with their ends against the teeth make them very white, and are used in this capac- ity in connection with snuff by some of the women cor-nō-pě-an, s. [Lat. cornu = a horn; Gr. of North Carolina, while the Indians extract a scar- paian a hymn, a war-song.] let color from the bark of the fibrous roots. C. off i- cinalis is cultivated in Japan, where its fruits are an ingredient in the fever drinks of the country. (For the CORNEL and the CORNELIAN CHERRY, see Cornus has been found in the Cretaceous rocks of 2. Palæo -botany : It is believed that the genus cor-nu-spir-a, s. [Lat. cornu =a horn, and spira =a coil, twist, or spire.] chambered spiral, suggestive of the form of the Zool. & Palæont.: A foraminifer with an un- Gasteropodous genus Plan orb is. It came into ex- istence only in the Tertiary, and still exists in the North Atlantic about 530 fathoms deep. IMG:content-0985.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0986.png:[blocks in formation] 4. Made or produced from corn or malt. "Now I have dronke a draught of corny ale." Chaucer: The Pardon eres Tate , 12,390, II. Fig .: Intoxicated. ( Slang .) †cor-nỹ (2), a. [Lat.corn (u); suff. y. Of the nature or appearance of horn; corneous. corolla co-rol-la, s. [Lat. a little crown, wreath, or garland; dim in. of corona =a crown, a wreath or garland.] Bot.: The inner whorl of two series of floral envelopes, occurring in the more highly developed plants. It is situated within the outer of these envelopes called the calyx, and exteriorly to the stamens and pistils. In all cases its divisions, which are called petals, alternate with those of the calyx. They are generally colored- i . e., in botanical language, they are some other color than green. The corolla is, as a rule, larger than the calyx, but in some plants this is not the case. When the petals of a corolla are all distinct, they are said to be polypetalous, which is the normal type of a corolla. When they cohere continuously by their margins they are generally called monopetalous (one-petaled), which is not a quite accurate term; a better one is gamopetalous, mean Corolla of Flower. that the petals have in a certain sense con tracted what may be poetically called a marriage union. For the several forms of corollas see MONO IMG:content-0987.png:[blocks in formation] Geog.: The territory along the western shore of the Bay of Bengal, from the mouth of the Krishna to Point Calimere. B. As adj .: Pertaining in any way to the region described under A. †Coromandel-wood, s. A name sometimes given to any fine wood of the genus Diospyros, brought from the Coromandel coast. Much used in the manufacture of the finest kind of furniture.