Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Botany Resembling or borne in a raceme.
- adjective Anatomy Having a structure of clustered parts. Used of glands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany:
- Having the character or appearance of a raceme: said of a flower-cluster.
- Arranged in racemes: said of the flowers.
- In anatomy, clustered or aggregate, as a gland; having ducts which divide and subdivide and end in bunches of follicles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having
flowers arranged along a single centralaxis , as in araceme ,spike , orcatkin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow
Etymologies
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Examples
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M. Fournier mentions an instance in _Pelargonium grandiflorum_, where, owing to the lengthening of the axis, the pedicels, instead of being umbellate, had become racemose; and I owe to the kindness of Dr. Sankey
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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A. Inflorescence racemose of simple (rarely branched) spikes bearing secund spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The spikelets are lanceolate, 2 - to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_ A compound racemose gland with duct passing to a free surface.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The pancreas (Figs. 1097, 1098) is a compound racemose gland, analogous in its structures to the salivary glands, though softer and less compactly arranged than those organs.
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The esophageal glands (glandulæ æsophageæ) are small compound racemose glands of the mucous type: they are lodged in the submucous tissue, and each opens upon the surface by a long excretory duct.
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Beneath the mucous membrane are found racemose mucous glands; they are especially numerous at the upper part of the pharynx around the orifices of the auditory tubes.
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They are of two kinds: (1) simple tubular glands resembling those of the pyloric end of the stomach, but with short ducts; (2) compound racemose glands resembling the duodenal glands.
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This is one of the simplest types of gland. s.g., a sweat gland, is also a simple tube, but convoluted below. r.g., is a racemose gland, such as the pancreas, Brunner's or the salivary glands.
bestiary commented on the word racemose
a perfect word for certain lists.
July 22, 2008