Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loosely branched inflorescence, especially a branching raceme.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of inflorescence produced, in its simple and normal type, when a raceme becomes irregularly compound by some of the pedicles developing into peduncles, each bearing several flowers, or branching again and again in the same order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A compound
raceme .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The inflorescence, or flowering part of the stem, is terminal, loosely branching in that form which botanists term a panicle, with long, linear floral leaves or bractes at the origin of each division.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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The flowers are arranged in a silvery, cylindrical, branching structure, called a panicle, up to 11 inches long and 1.5 inches wide.
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Its long, narrow leaves grow along the length of the stalk, which terminates in a bushy flowering panicle.
Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America 2009
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The non-native P. australis can grow up to 5 meters tall, has a rough, entirely green stalk, dark blue-green foliage, a dense flower panicle and often grows in dense monocultures.
Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America 2009
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Alternatively, the native subspecies americanus is typically shorter, has a smooth, often reddish stalk, lighter yellow-green foliage, a sparser flower panicle and often grows in association with other plants.
Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America 2009
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The natural glutin is produced while the slim, fluted, inch-long seeds are green, but its virtue remains even after the whole panicle has withered and has fallen.
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GRACILE, formerly collected in the tropical part of New Holland by Dr. Brown; and a very remarkable new species of the same curious genus, with an open narrow panicle, and little branches not unlike those of a young oat. 103 The river again formed a goodly continuous channel.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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So tenacious is it and prompt, that should a panicle as it whirls downward touch the leaves of lower branches of the parent, or of any neighbouring tree, it sticks and becomes a pendant swaying trap in a new position.
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FLOWERS: Inflorescence a large terminal branched panicle which may be compact or loosely held.
Chapter 7 1999
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The degree of cross-pollination depends on both the amount of wind and the panicle type, open heads being more liable to cross - pollination than compact ones.
7. Sorghum 1996
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