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Definition of Inflorescence

1. Noun. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.

2. Noun. The flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk.

Definition of Inflorescence

1. n. A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

Definition of Inflorescence

1. Noun. flower cluster ¹

2. Noun. (eventual etymological fallacy) a beginning to flower ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inflorescence

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Inflorescence

1. The group or arrangement in which flowers are borne on a plant. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflorescence

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inflictor inflictors inflicts inflight infliximab inflorescence (current term) inflorescences inflorescent inflow inflowed

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Literary usage of Inflorescence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"inflorescence elongate, i\t least the lower spikes scattered. Uppermost spikes divaricate-pedunculate, lowermost subtended by a leaf-like bract; ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"inflorescence paniculate or corymbose, often unilateral, ... A. Lowest leaf of the inflorescence terete, not conspicuously channeled, erect, appearing like ..."

3. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"inflorescence Kay, ' inflorescence,' ' tassel. ... 'inflorescence of common ragweed' ... common ragweed; My, inflorescence). In case the flowers are not ..."

4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"Pistillate inflorescence naked. Outer glume of pistillate inflorescence ... Secondary branches in terminal inflorescence equalling or more numerous than the ..."

5. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver (1868)
"The inflorescence of a plant is the arrangement of the flowering branches, ... An inflorescence is a flowering branch, or the flowering summit of a plant ..."

6. Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the by George Bentham (1861)
"The inflorescence of a plant is the arrangement of the flowering branches, ... An inflorescence is a flowering branch, or the flowering summit of a plant ..."

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