paniculate

"Aquatic amusements of the silica paniculate variety," was her reference to the beach at Land's End. Didn't Mom ever realize, Ruth now mused, how her demands for no secrets drove me to hide even more from her?

The Bonesetter's Daughter TAN, Amy 2001

It observed closely, and discovered that there was an organized mass of paniculate matter attached to it; the matter seemed to be acting upon that other mass of matter which appeared to be associated with the dwindling blue-violet glow.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

Under this head, too, may be included those cases wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Fertile spike relatively short and stout, strongly paniculate when well developed.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

It is rather singular that each species of _Plantago_ seems to have its own perverse mode of growth; for instance, the bracteate, polystachyate and paniculate forms are almost exclusively confined to _P. major_, the roseate form to _P. media_, the proliferous form to _P. lanceolata_.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Inflorescence racemed or paniculate; glumes four, first two glumes unequal 4.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _inflorescence_ consists of paniculate spike-like racemes terminating the branches and at first enclosed in spathiform bracts, the lower and outer spathiform bracts are one inch or more in length with a long awn at the tip, and the inner proper sheaths are oblong, awned and about 1/2 inch long.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Inflorescence paniculate, spikelets few or many-flowered, glumes many-nerved and many-awned.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Alopecuros_ and _Setaria glauca_, the paniculate inflorescences become so contracted that the pedicels and the short branches are hidden and the inflorescence appears to be a spike.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari