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Definition of Panicle
1. Noun. Compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers.
Definition of Panicle
1. n. A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
Definition of Panicle
1. Noun. (botany) A compound raceme. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Panicle
1. a loosely branched flower cluster [n -S] : PANICLED [adj]
Medical Definition of Panicle
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Panicle
Literary usage of Panicle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"panicle generally open, its rays in pairs or in half whorls. ... Tall (1 to 3
feet), the branches of the loose open panicle mostly in fives : florets more ..."
2. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"panicle diffuse; upper leaves much shorter than the smooth ... L \ panicle
elongated, diffuse, at length mimo what second ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"panicle large and diffuse, occupying more than one half of the plant. 5. ...
panicle not occupying over one third of the plant, usually exserted from the ..."
4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"V. viride, L. Stem stout, leafy throughout; leaves broadly oval, acute, clasping,
pubescent beneath ; panicle pyramidal, composed of numerous dense racemes; ..."
5. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"131 panicle pyramidal; scales 4, lowest scale small ; flowering scale white, ...
panicle narrow and contracted after flowering. Meadow Fescue . ..."
6. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"The panicle often assumes a purplish blue colour, and in that state it seems ...
panicle brown green, 2 inches long, i inch broad, appearing distorted from ..."
7. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"panicle elongated, diffuse, at length somewhat oo base, yellow at the tip,
obscurely 5-nerved: ... panicle-equal, diffuse ; branches weak and at leng ovate, ..."
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