Hypertext Webster Gateway: "raceme"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Raceme \Ra*ceme"\, 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 having the lower pedicels developed
into secondary racemes.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
raceme
n : usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in
which the flowers at the base open first
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