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Synonyms for raceme
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : rey-seem, ruh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : reɪˈsim, rə- |
Définition of raceme
Origin :- type of flower cluster, 1785, from Latin racemus "a cluster of grapes" (see raisin). Related: Racemic; racemism.
- As in cone : noun circular-shaped object with pointed end
- This form of inflorescence is known technically as a “raceme.”
- Extract from : « Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany » by Douglas Houghton Campbell
- Spike, an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile, 74.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Botany » by Asa Gray
- Now this plant produces several flowers on a raceme and many racemes during a season.
- Extract from : « The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) » by Charles Darwin
- The leaves of this plant are linear and channelled, and the drooping flowers form a raceme of from six to twelve blooms.
- Extract from : « Field and Woodland Plants » by William S. Furneaux
- In this specimen a raceme of small flowers was included within the enlarged pericarp of a species of Anchusa.
- Extract from : « Vegetable Teratology » by Maxwell T. Masters
- Diagram of a simple cyme in which the axis lengthens, so as to take the form of a raceme.
- Extract from : « The Elements of Botany » by Asa Gray
- Four large compound leaves, each consisting of five or seven leaflets, and a raceme of sixty-eight flowers, have Fig. 129.
- Extract from : « Botany for Ladies » by Jane Loudon
- Its raceme of white flowers and its black berries are also known to me; but alas, only in a garden.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Wildflower » by Henry S. Salt
- For, as a rule, the nearer the flower to the tip of the raceme in the pear, the shorter the stem on the fruit.
- Extract from : « The Pears of New York » by U. P. Hedrick
- A raceme of flowers, much longer than the leaves, arises from several of the nodes.
- Extract from : « Field and Woodland Plants » by William S. Furneaux
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