inflorescence
Americannoun
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a flowering or blossoming.
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Botany.
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the arrangement of flowers on the axis.
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the flowering part of a plant.
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a flower cluster.
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flowers collectively.
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noun
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the part of a plant that consists of the flower-bearing stalks
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the arrangement of the flowers on the stalks
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the process of flowering; blossoming
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A group of flowers growing from a common stem, often in a characteristic arrangement.
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Also called flower cluster
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Origin of inflorescence
First recorded in 1750–60; from New Latin inflōrēscentia, from Late Latin inflōrēscent- (stem of inflōrēscēns present participle of inflōrēscere “to bloom 1; ” see in- 2, flora, -escent, -ence
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Inflorescence chiefly terminal, panicled 2, in COMPOSITAE, p.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan
Inflorescence of Polyanthus, with tufts of leaves at the summit 105 53.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Determinate Inflorescence is that in which the flowers are from terminal buds.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Inflorescence loose and open, 15-30 cm. wide; 1-2 m. high Ironweed, Vernonia altissima. 102a.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan
Inflorescence is either a raceme of spikes or, a lax or contracted panicle.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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