racemose

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Flowers.—Axillary on solitary peduncles; sometimes becoming racemose by the diminution of the upper leaves to bracts.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Flowers terminal, white, racemose, with 2 flattened peduncles.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Embryo foliaceous, heart-shaped.—Flowers greenish-white, in long racemose panicles.

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