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Compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers
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panicle
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A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence . Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit ) be pedicellate . The branches of a panicle are often racemes . A panicle may have determinate or indeterminate growth. ...
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n. (context botany English) A compound raceme.
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n. compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers
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Panicle \Pan"i*cle\, n. [L. panicula a tuft on plants, dim. of panus the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle; cf. Gr. ?, ?; prob. akin to E. pane: cf. F. panicule. See 2d Pane .] (Bot.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely ...
Usage examples of panicle.
Here in the Goldenmire grew the tall reed-grass with yellow panicles which gave its name to this section of the swamp.
The flowers grow at the top of the stems, arranged in loose panicles, under each little branch of which is a little floral leaf, or bract.
It is a herbaceous plant, with a knotted stem a foot or two in height, round and hollow, generally green, but sometimes tinged with red, lateral branches growing out of the joints, which give off alternately from opposite sides, heart-shaped, or somewhat arrowshaped leaves, and from July to September, spreading panicles of numerous light freshcoloured flowers, which are perfumed.
At the water's edge, the feathery white panicles of the pampas grass caught the curious radiance and glowed like plumes of iridescent gas.
The sharp-edged grasses often grew to twice Anigel's height and were crowned by feathery golden-yellow flower panicles.