Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, disposed in racemes: said of flowers or fruits, or of the branches of a racemosely compound inflorescence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.
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- adjective botany Arranged in a
raceme , or in racemes.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Spikes or spiciform spikes racemed, spikelets 2 - to 3-flowered, 4 - to 5-glumed, awned.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Inflorescence racemed or paniculate; glumes four, first two glumes unequal 4.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Inflorescence racemed; glumes three; nerves of second glume five or less, side nerves curved 1.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The little white flowers which appear in midsummer are racemed in leafy whorls, followed by small black fruits, popularly called seeds.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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The flowers, generally blue, sometimes pink, violet-red, or white, are loosely racemed at the extremities of the branches and main stems.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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Very different from any described MYRIOGYNE, in the terminal racemed capitula.] 127 [T. GLAUCA (Lindl.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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-- Very different from any described MYRIOGYNE, in the terminal racemed capitula.] [** T. GLAUCA (Lindl.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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