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racemose

[ras-uh-mohs] / ˈræs əˌmoʊs /
ADJECTIVE
grapelike
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Spikelets 3–many-flowered, panicled or racemose; the flowers not webby at base.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Funkia.—Pretty liliaceous plants, with simple conspicuously longitudinal-ribbed leaves, the racemose flowers funnel-shaped and deflexed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

The spikelets are lanceolate, 2- to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

In such cases the cymes are described as spiked, racemose, or panicled, according to circumstances.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various




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