racemose

American  

[ras-uh-mohs] / ˈræs əˌmoʊs /

adjective

1. Botany.

   1. having the form of a raceme.

   2. arranged in racemes.

2. Anatomy. (of a gland) resembling a bunch of grapes; having branching ducts that end in acini.

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racemose British  

/ ˈræsɪˌməʊs, -ˌməʊz /

adjective

1. being or resembling a raceme

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Other Word Forms

• racemosely adverb

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

Capsule oblong, few-seeded, early ruptured through one side.—Flowers solitary or racemose, stalked.

From Project Gutenberg

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.

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Flowers.—Axillary on solitary peduncles; sometimes becoming racemose by the diminution of the upper leaves to bracts.

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Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.

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Thus we may have a group of racemes, arranged in a racemose manner on a common axis, forming a raceme of racemes or compound raceme, as in Astilbe.

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