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noun

Inflorescence n.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

(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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Etymology of 'Inflorescence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inflorescence" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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