racemose

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Capsule oblong, few-seeded, early ruptured through one side.—Flowers solitary or racemose, stalked.

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

General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

Heads in a compound terminal corymb, not at all racemose 37–40 Heads small, mostly clustered in the axils of feather-veined leaves 3–7 Heads mostly large, in a terminal thyrse; leaves feather-veined.

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

F. A compound racemose gland with duct passing to a free surface.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

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