raceme
IPA: reɪsˈim
noun
- (botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.
Examples of "raceme" in Sentences
- The axis of the raceme is glandular.
- The flowers are often in drooping racemes.
- A compound raceme is often called a panicle.
- The inflorescence is a raceme of several flowers.
- The flowers are yellow, produced on a terminal raceme.
- The inflorescence is a congested or lax terminal raceme.
- Inflorescences are raceme panicles, with a yellow corolla.
- The inflorescence is a panicle or raceme with small bracts.
- The flowers are white or pink, in usually pendulous racemes.
- Several of these are arranged in racemes on an elongated scape.
- One of the specimens had a raceme of flowers above a foot long.
- The flowers are cinnamon-scented, sessile in 1-2 simple raceme-like spikes from the axils.
- When she removed it to join in the raceme quadrille, the torchlight caught the deep auburn tints of her hair.
- The sun-bird flashes from raceme to raceme, sampling a dozen blooms, while his noisy rival sips with the air of a connoisseur at one.
- The flower cluster (raceme), supported on a stout stalk, consists of 180 to 200 short-stalked flowers arranged in threes around the axis.
- The flower cluster (raceme), 'supported on a stout stalk, consists of 180 to 200 short-stalked flowers arranged in threes around the axis.
- In the monstrous fruit the axis is prolonged, and forms a kind of raceme or catkin, surrounded at the base by numerous bracts, as in many _Amentaceæ_.
- Birth flower, May, lily of the valley, stemless convallariaceous herb, Convallaria majalis, with a raceme of drooping, bell-shaped fragrant white flowers.
- The raceme, which appears about the sixth to the tenth month, will take sixty days more to ripen; good stocks produce three and more bunches a year, each weighing from twenty to eighty pounds.