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How to use racemes in a sentence
The flowers are set in close racemes at the ends of the branches, and are bluish in color and of bean blossom shape.
PRAIRIE SMOKE (SECOND EDITION, REVISED)MELVIN RANDOLPH GILMOREIt is a tree of graceful appearance, with elegant pinnated foliage and numerous racemes of fragrant flowers.
THE DESERT WORLDARTHUR MANGINThe tree bears a profusion of scarlet racemes of flowers, and of large bright green leaves.
AUSTRALIAN PICTURESHOWARD WILLOUGHBYThe other day only the outer and lower flowers of the racemes were blown, but on this occasion the whole cluster was in bloom.
IN INDIAN MEXICO (1908)FREDERICK STARRThe flowers are produced in pendulous racemes; they are fleshy, whitish, or yellow, and spotted with purple or brown.
ORCHIDSJAMES O'BRIENSlender date trees sway in the breeze, and the long racemes of the acacia shed their delicate perfume abroad.
THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE: BOOK VIIANNA B. BADLAMThe flowers are of a red-purple colour, changing to greenish blue as they fade; and are in loose racemes of from two to four.
FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTSWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXThe flowers are about half an inch long, in short, dense, shortly-stalked racemes.
FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTSWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXThe racemes are one-sided, on rather long stalks, with from ten to thirty flowers, each nearly half an inch long.
FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTSWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXThe blue flowers are arranged in erect terminal racemes, either simple or branched, each flower having a short stalk.
FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTSWILLIAM S. FURNEAUX