raceme

IPA: reɪsˈim

(botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.

Examples of "raceme" in Sentences

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.