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Inflorescence   Listen
noun
Inflorescence  n.  
1.
A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.
2.
(Bot.)
(a)
The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other.
(b)
An axis on which all the buds are flower buds. "Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants."
Centrifugal inflorescence, determinate inflorescence.
Centripetal inflorescence, indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate.






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"Inflorescence" Quotes from Famous Books



... remembered name of Halesia. Halesia hispida is a hardy Japanese shrub of recent introduction, with numerous white Deutzia-like flowers in long terminal racemes. A peculiar appearance is produced by the arrangement of the flowers on one side only of the branchlets of the inflorescence. The botanical history of the plant is well known, and our illustration is sufficient to show the general appearance of the plant. It is decidedly one of the best recent additions to the number of hardy deciduous flowering shrubs. For the specimen whence our figure was taken we are indebted ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various

... erection, edification; coinage; diaster^; organization; nisus formativus [Lat.]; putting together &c v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement &c (completion) 729. flowering, fructification; inflorescence. bringing forth &c v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture^; gestation &c (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy [Phil.]; fertilization, gemination, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... days, heralding spring, to which rude winter will reluctantly yield place. In snug corners, among the rocks, the great spurge of our district, the characias of the Greeks, the jusclo of the Provencals, begins to lift its drooping inflorescence and discreetly opens a few sombre flowers. Here the first midges of the year will come to slake their thirst. By the time that the tip of the stalks reaches the perpendicular, the worst of the cold weather ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre



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