racemose

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: Having flowers arranged along a single central axis, as in a raceme, spike, or catkin
Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, Bot
the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme
) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat
{s} arranged in clusters around a common stem (Botany)
Arranged like a raceme; in general any inflorescence capable of indefinite prolongation, having lateral and axillary flowers
having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow; "lilies of the valley are racemose"
a , an inflorescence whose growing points continue to add to the inflorescence and in which there are no terminal flowers, and the branching is monopodial, as racemes, or spikes
Having flowers arranged along a single central axis, as in a raceme, spike, or catkin
A raceme-like branch of the inflorescence
racemose

    Hyphenation

    rac·e·mose

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ 'ra-s&-"mOs; rA-'sE-, r&am ] (adjective.) 1698. From Latin racēmōsus (“full of clusters”), from racēmus (“cluster, bunch”).
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