raceme
noun
a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
racemed
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a word derived from
raceme.
Example Sentences
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Spikelets spiked or somewhat racemed, in 2–4 rows on one side of a flattened or filiform continuous rhachis, jointed upon very short pedicels, plano-convex, awnless, 1-flowered.
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
Eleusine.Spikes or spiciform spikes racemed, spikelets 2- to 3-flowered, 4- to 5-glumed, awned.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
The little white flowers which appear in midsummer are racemed in leafy whorls, followed by small black fruits, popularly called seeds.
From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains
Shrubs or small trees with commonly deciduous leaves, and axillary, or racemed, white, showy flowers on drooping stems.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Seeds with a wing-angled seed-coat.—Catkins racemed, nodding, in the bud enclosed by a 4-leaved deciduous involucre.
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
