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Definition of Raceme
1. Noun. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
Definition of Raceme
1. n. A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
Definition of Raceme
1. Noun. (botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis. ¹
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Definition of Raceme
1. a mode of arrangement of flowers along an axis [n -S] : RACEMED [adj]
Medical Definition of Raceme
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Raceme
Literary usage of Raceme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"B. Pedicels short: bracts linear, in pairs: raceme many-fld. .... A beautiful
species with the dense elongated raceme of rose-colored fls., worthy of cult, ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"usually with a shorter claw and the blade cordate at base. The species has been
confounded with Nevada and northward, with the raceme occasionally compound, ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"pedicels long, ascending or spreading : raceme open. July to Sept. ... A beautiful
species with the dense elongated raceme of rose-colored flowers, ..."
4. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"The PANICLE is a compound inflorescence, formed by an irregular brandling of the
pedicels of the raceme. Ex. oats, Poa, and many other grasses. 305. ..."
5. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"202) is the same as a raceme, except that it is flat and broad, ... That is, a
raceme becomes a corymb by lengthening the lower pedicels while the uppermost ..."
6. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Glutinous-pubescent: stem slender, J to Ц feet high : raceme short ... Stem from
a bulbous base, l>earing a compact raceme of showy white flowers, ..."
7. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"They are the raceme, Corymb, and Umbel, with flowers raised on pedicels; the
Spike and Head, with sessile flowers; also some modifications of these, ..."
8. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"... and Flowers blue, the clusters in a simple raceme mostly УЛ to 1 in. long;
leaves mostly sometimes concealing the supplementary lateral nerves 4. ..."
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