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

Leaves all nearly filiform and upper face hispidulous scabrous; inflorescence more paniculate; corolla small, the expanded limb only 6´´ in diameter.

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

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

The male and female inflorescences have the form of simple or paniculate spikes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 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 Masters, Maxwell T.

Amphicarpum is remarkable in having cleistogamic flowers borne on long radical subterranean peduncles which are fertile, whilst the conspicuous upper paniculate ones, though apparently perfect, never produce fruit.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various