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racemose definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow; "lilies of the valley are racemose"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin racemosus full of clusters, from racemus Date: 1698 having or growing in the form of a raceme

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 Bot. in the form of a raceme. 2 Anat. (of a gland etc.) clustered. Etymology: L racemosus (as RACEME)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Racemose Rac"e*mose`, a. [L. racemosus full of clusters.] Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme. --Gray.