paniculate
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of paniculate
First recorded in 1720–30, paniculate is from the New Latin word pāniculātus panicled. See panicle, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Fertile spike relatively short and stout, strongly paniculate when well developed.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by George Henry Tilton
Diffusely branched, about 1° high, leaves oblong to lanceolate, racemes lax, loosely paniculate; flowers small; nutlets of the globular-pyramidal fruit only marginally glochidiate.—Iowa,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Among grasses such a branching of the inflorescence is exceedingly common,—which is the more readily understood as the normal inflorescence is in so many cases paniculate.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
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