Hypertext Webster Gateway: "racemose"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Racemose \Rac"e*mose`\, a. [L. racemosus full of clusters.]
Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as,
(Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose
glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a
raceme. --Gray.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

racemose
adj : (botany) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that
continue to open in succession from below as the stem
continues to grow; "lilies of the valley are racemose"


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