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Inflorescence

noun

The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering.

The flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk.

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Etymology of 'Inflorescence'

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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

Words linked to "Inflorescence" : ament, ontogenesis, catkin, umbel, bloom, growing, cyme, maturation, florescence, spike, growth, blossom, flowering, corymb, efflorescence, flower, flower cluster, ontogeny, development, bract, flower head