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

Panicle simple or compound; the spikelets often racemose, purplish.

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

Flowers in racemose or panicled clusters, the fertile above, the staminate below.

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

Spikelets 3–many-flowered, panicled or racemose; the flowers not webby at base.

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

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 Thomas, Jerome Beers

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 Gray, Asa