corolla

noun

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. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Toyota Corolla.

   “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.”

   “So vehicles, like some Toyota Corollas, have a 160-mph speedometer despite coming nowhere close to reaching such speeds.”

name

1. A surname.

   “Corolla asked Miller if the two were friends following filming.”