paniculate

American  

[puh-nik-yuh-leyt, -lit] / pəˈnɪk yəˌleɪt, -lɪt /

Sometimes paniculated

adjective

Botany.

1. arranged in panicles.

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paniculate British  

/ pəˈnɪkjʊˌleɪt, -lɪt /

adjective

1. botany growing or arranged in panicles

   a paniculate inflorescence

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Other Word Forms

• paniculately adverb

Etymology

Origin of paniculate

First recorded in 1720–30, paniculate is from the New Latin word pāniculātus panicled. See panicle, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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 Tilton, George Henry

Pommereulla.Inflorescence paniculate, spikelets few or many-flowered, glumes many-nerved and many-awned.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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 Masters, Maxwell T.

Style filiform, nearly persistent; stigma of 2 broad lamellæ.—Glaucous large-flowered annuals, with more or less clasping and connate leaves, and slender terminal and more or less paniculate 1-flowered peduncles.

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 Gray, Asa

Flower-heads.—Terminating the paniculate branches; large; two inches or so across; white, changing to rose or lilac; of ray-flowers only.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth