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raceme

Noun

ra=ceme

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raceme(n = noun.plant) Array - usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first; Array

has particulars: panicle

raceme, n. [L. racemus a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See Raisin.].

A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. [1913 Webster]

Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

raceme, n. Bot. a flower cluster with the separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distances along a central stem (cf. CYME).

Etymology

L racemus grape-bunch

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