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- noun Plural form of
pannicle .
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Examples
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Yes; there was the thick, stout trunk, all gnarled and knotted with the marks of where the leaves had once grown -- there were the short, clublike branches, separating from each other at the head -- at the blunt ends of each were the fascicles of bayonet-shaped leaves, and the pannicles of greenish-white flowers -- all exactly as in the picture!
Ran Away to Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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Out of the midst of these leaves grew the pannicles, or flower-spikes, and the bunches of small, nut-like fruit.
Ran Away to Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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On the way I found a species of the common poison which I had not seen before, and a beautiful Conospermum, with pannicles of blue flowers varying to white.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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Sorghum pannicles with normal kernels (left) and large (right)
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_Fantastic pannicles_, brain cells of the imagination.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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H. panniculata, or pannicle hydrangea, is the most cold hardy and may grow 10 to 15 feet tall, having large creamy white blooms on 18 "long pannicles.
unknown title 2009
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