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Definition of Flower cluster
1. Noun. An inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flower Cluster
Literary usage of Flower cluster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"In the flower cluster of the tomatoes, there is a great range of variation, the
extremes being the simple raceme with the flowers, and afterwards the fruits ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Deeply cleft. pertaining to it. Pectinate. Comb-like. Pedicel. The stalk of a
flower in a flower- Peduncle. Stalk of a flower, or a flower-cluster, cluster, ..."
3. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"A peduncle on which a flower cluster is raised is a common peduncle. ... The leaves
of a flower cluster generally are termed BRACTS. ..."
4. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"285, a terminal peduncle bears at summit a dense flower-cluster. Flowers are
either solitary^or in clusters. ..."
5. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1908)
"egg in a flower cluster, although occasionally she will deposit several on the
same plant. However, as many as six or seven have been found in a single ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The form and size of the individual flower and of the flower-cluster have been
... The flower-cluster is of graceful, oblate-oval form, with no unoccupied ..."
7. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"285, a terminal peduncle bears at summit a dense flower-cluster. ... An indeterminate
flower-cluster may go on to develop internode ..."
8. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"A peduncle on which a flower-cluster is raised is a Common peduncle. ... The leaves
of a flower-cluster generally are termed BRACTS. ..."
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