racemose
Americanadjective
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Botany.
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having the form of a raceme.
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arranged in racemes.
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Anatomy. (of a gland) resembling a bunch of grapes; having branching ducts that end in acini.
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Etymology
Origin of racemose
First recorded in 1690–1700, racemose is from the Latin word racēmōsus full of clusters, clustering. See raceme, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Flowers.—White; two lines across; in terminal racemose panicles.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Heads in a compound terminal corymb, not at all racemose 37–40 Heads small, mostly clustered in the axils of feather-veined leaves 3–7 Heads mostly large, in a terminal thyrse; leaves feather-veined.
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
General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
In such cases the cymes are described as spiked, racemose, or panicled, according to circumstances.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Flowers yellowish-white, terminal in racemose panicles with opposite peduncles.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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