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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Herbaceous; stem widely branched; leaflets heart-ovate, pointed, doubly serrate, slightly downy; umbels racemose; styles united.—Rich woodlands, N. Brunswick to Minn., south to the mountains of Ga. July.
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 yellowish-white, terminal in racemose panicles with opposite peduncles.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Embryo foliaceous, heart-shaped.—Flowers greenish-white, in long racemose panicles.
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 on solitary peduncles; sometimes becoming racemose by the diminution of the upper leaves to bracts.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Slender, strict and simple, with few or several racemose or terminal heads, like those of the last; leaves lanceolate or linear, the lower usually long and narrow.—S. W. Va., and southward.
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
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