Definition of Raceme

1. Noun. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.

Generic synonyms: Flower Cluster
Specialized synonyms: Panicle

Definition of Raceme

1. n. A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

Definition of Raceme

1. Noun. (botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Raceme

1. a mode of arrangement of flowers along an axis [n -S] : RACEMED [adj]

Medical Definition of Raceme

1. An indeterminate inflorescence in which a main main stem produces a series of flowers on lateral stalks, the oldest at the base and the youngest at the top. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Raceme

racecourses
raced
racefemine
racegoer
racegoers
racegoing
racehorse
racehorses
racelike
racemase
racemases
racemate
racemates
racemation
racemations
raceme (current term)
racemed
racemelike
racemes
racemethorphan
racemic
racemic acid
racemic mixture
racemiferous
racemiform
racemise
racemised
racemises
racemism
racemisms

Literary usage of Raceme

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"B. Pedicels short: bracts linear, in pairs: raceme many-fld. .... A beautiful species with the dense elongated raceme of rose-colored fls., worthy of cult, ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"usually with a shorter claw and the blade cordate at base. The species has been confounded with Nevada and northward, with the raceme occasionally compound, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"pedicels long, ascending or spreading : raceme open. July to Sept. ... A beautiful species with the dense elongated raceme of rose-colored flowers, ..."

4. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"The PANICLE is a compound inflorescence, formed by an irregular brandling of the pedicels of the raceme. Ex. oats, Poa, and many other grasses. 305. ..."

5. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"202) is the same as a raceme, except that it is flat and broad, ... That is, a raceme becomes a corymb by lengthening the lower pedicels while the uppermost ..."

6. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Glutinous-pubescent: stem slender, J to Ц feet high : raceme short ... Stem from a bulbous base, l>earing a compact raceme of showy white flowers, ..."

7. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"They are the raceme, Corymb, and Umbel, with flowers raised on pedicels; the Spike and Head, with sessile flowers; also some modifications of these, ..."

8. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"... and Flowers blue, the clusters in a simple raceme mostly УЛ to 1 in. long; leaves mostly sometimes concealing the supplementary lateral nerves 4. ..."

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