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Definition of Panicles
1. panicle [n] - See also: panicle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panicles
Literary usage of Panicles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"and rougher wool than the preceding, particularly on the panicles, and the leaves
are ... panicles terminal, or from the upper axils, villous and brownish. ..."
2. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Flowers white, on short pedicels, in large erect terminal cross-branched cymose
panicles 1-3 ft. long, with short lanceolate bracts. ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... sheaths hispid, enclosing the short lateral panicles ; abortive floret neutral,
the upper palea obtuse, about 2 thirds the length of the lower one. ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Perennial herb, 1-2 ft. high: Ivs. broad at base, obscurely 3-lobed, crenate;
sometimes incised: fls. scarlet or rose, 1 in. across: panicles axillary and ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Tall shrub : Ivs. broadly elliptic, mostly subcordate, obtuse, serrate, dark
green and glabrous above, 2-3 in. long : fls. in large, compound panicles at ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Flowers small, polygamous, in dense small axillary panicles. Stamens purple-black.
Samaras 1J in., in large drooping panicles, pedicelled^linear oblong, ..."
7. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Flowers white, in pendulous panicles. Drupe purple. The corolla is sometimes 5
or 6-cleft. Snowdrop Tree. Fringe Tree. 3. FRAXINUS. Linn. ..."
8. Useful Plants of Japan Described and Illustrated by Dai Nihon Nōkai (1895)
"The leaves are 1-2 inches long, and amidst them produces small panicles of flowers,
... The. panicles also resemble those of 5)72, but larger and longer. ..."
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