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

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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

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Example Sentences

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racemose

Flowers greenish, axillary, the fertile solitary or in pairs, peduncled, appearing with the leaves, the lower usually staminate only, fascicled or racemose along the base of the branches of the season.

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

Seeds flattened.—Slender glabrous climbing annuals or perennials, with very small racemose or panicled white sterile flowers and a solitary fertile one in the same axil.

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

Flowers axillary, racemose, with a scale at the base of the peduncle, some hermaphrodite and others lacking pistils.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

D. Ajàcis, L. Flowers more numerous and spicately racemose; pods pubescent.—Sparingly escaped from gardens in E. Atlantic States.

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

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

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