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

Perennial; stems smooth, erect; leaves 8 or sometimes 6 in the whorls, linear, roughish, soon deflexed; flowers very numerous, paniculate, yellow; fruit usually smooth.—Dry fields, E. Mass.

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

Eriochloa.Inflorescence racemed or paniculate; glumes four, first two glumes unequal 4.

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

Lithospermum.—L. prostratum, 3 in., is a trailing evergreen herb, with narrow hairy leaves, and paniculate brilliant blue flowers in May and June.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

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

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 Masters, Maxwell T.