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raceme
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ A raceme ( or ) is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing pedicellate flowers —flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels —along its axis. In botany , an axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Raceme \Ra*ceme"\ (r[.a]*s[=e]m"; 277), n. [L. racemus a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See Raisin .] (Bot.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. Compound raceme , one ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first
Usage examples of raceme.
The floriferous character of the plant may be inferred from the fact that, after the raceme fades, there pushes from the axil a peduncle, which, in a short time, produces many other racemes.
Tended by eldin and much loved by the present queen, this magical place became a riot of color in the spring, when the hust trees bloomed in long white racemes that hung to the ground and all sorts of flowers burst from the ground to open crimson, gold, and pink petals.
In the cool room, the first one you enter from the vestibule, the Odontoglossums were sporting their sprays, and in the middle room, the tropical room, two benches of Phalaenopsis, the hardiest of all to grow well, were crowding the aisle with racemes two feet long, but at mossiae time the big show was in the third room.
From an arbor in the shrubbery, he pulled down a vine covered with white, sweet-smelling blooms and used this to tie the flowers into an enormous bouquet, wrapping their long stems with the ends of the vine, then tucking in a few delicate racemes of something pink for contrast.
It bears a sweet, edible fruit, somewhat like that of the Common Fig, but produced in racemes, on the older branches.
It is a tall, herbaceous plant, with feathery racemes of white blossoms, 1 to 3 feet long, which being slender, droop gracefully.
This involved a further outlay of money and was aimed simultaneously at the mental stability of the Misses Musgrove, and the physical ill-health of either, or both, depending on the degree of recrimination they indulged in, Mr and Mrs Raceme.
Truster and Mr and Mrs Raceme, the Misses Musgrove were taken to the police car and driven off at high speed to be charged.
Impeded by the bed and driven insane by the pain he hurtled across the room in the general direction of her voice, smashed through the dressing-table behind which Mrs Raceme was sheltering and carrying all before him, dressing-table, bed, bedside lamp and teamaker, not to mention Mrs Raceme, shot through the curtains of the patio window, smashed the double glazing and cascaded down into the flowerbed below.