Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inflorescence having stalked flowers arranged singly along an elongated unbranched axis, with the flowers at the bottom opening first.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
- noun one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.
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- noun botany An
indeterminate inflorescence in which theflowers are arranged along a single centralaxis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the monstrous fruit the axis is prolonged, and forms a kind of raceme or catkin, surrounded at the base by numerous bracts, as in many _Amentaceæ_.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Birth flower, May, lily of the valley, stemless convallariaceous herb, Convallaria majalis, with a raceme of drooping, bell-shaped fragrant white flowers.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Birth flower, May, lily of the valley, stemless convallariaceous herb, Convallaria majalis, with a raceme of drooping, bell-shaped fragrant white flowers.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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One of the specimens had a raceme of flowers above a foot long.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The raceme, which appears about the sixth to the tenth month, will take sixty days more to ripen; good stocks produce three and more bunches a year, each weighing from twenty to eighty pounds.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The sun-bird flashes from raceme to raceme, sampling a dozen blooms, while his noisy rival sips with the air of a connoisseur at one.
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The flower cluster (raceme), supported on a stout stalk, consists of 180 to 200 short-stalked flowers arranged in threes around the axis.
Chapter 10 1996
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When she removed it to join in the raceme quadrille, the torchlight caught the deep auburn tints of her hair.
Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990
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The flower cluster (raceme), 'supported on a stout stalk, consists of 180 to 200 short-stalked flowers arranged in threes around the axis.
Chapter 24 1990
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The flowers are cinnamon-scented, sessile in 1-2 simple raceme-like spikes from the axils.
Chapter 37 1987
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