Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cluster of flowers arranged in a characteristic way on a stem.
- noun The process of flowering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany:
- noun The portion of a plant devoted to reproduction, including the flowers, peduncles, rachides, general axes, flower-stalks, scapes, etc.
- noun A beginning to blossom; a flowering; the unfolding of blossoms.
- noun In botany, the arrangement of flowers on the axis and in relation to each other.
- noun See the adjectives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.
- noun The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other.
- noun An axis on which all the buds are flower buds.
- noun determinate inflorescence.
- noun indeterminate inflorescence. See under
Determinate , andIndeterminate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
flower cluster - noun a beginning to flower
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
- noun the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apart from the gathering odor, which can be strong and pungent, the maturing inflorescence is marked by a number of striking elements.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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Flowers: Its crested inflorescence is ornately rippled and brilliantly colored.
Celosia, century plant and coconut palm: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2008
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Flowers: Its crested inflorescence is ornately rippled and brilliantly colored.
Celosia, century plant and coconut palm: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2008
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The inflorescence is a spike-like panicle, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rachises.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence is usually a more or less contracted panicle with very slender branches.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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When the spikelets are sessile or borne directly along an elongated axis as in _Enteropogon melicoides_ the inflorescence is a
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence is a simple slender curved spike.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence is a panicle consisting of groups of dissimilar spikelets with compressed, boat-shaped spathes on peduncles.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence is a leafy panicle of many small spikes enclosed in spathiform bracts.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inflorescence is a narrow pyramidal raceme of slender, spreading or deflexed spikes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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