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 unisexual, racemose, spicate or capitate; calyx becoming fleshy or juicy in fruit.

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.—In a dense, pyramidal panicle, four to twelve inches long, with mostly erect racemose branches.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

This is one of the simplest types of gland. s.g., a sweat gland, is also a simple tube, but convoluted below. r.g., is a racemose gland, such as the pancreas, Brunner's or the salivary glands.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

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

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