Raceme

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An inflorescence having stalked flowers arranged singly along an elongated unbranched axis, as in the lily of the valley.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cluster; specifically, in botany, a simple inflorescence of the centripetal or indeterminate type, in which the several or many flowers are borne on somewhat equal axillary pedicels along a relatively lengthened axis or rachis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first
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    Hyponym
    panicle   
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    drupe    inflorescence    life-span    propolis    asthenia    fertilisation    spike    catkin