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inflorescence

WordNet
  1. (n) inflorescence
    the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
  2. (n) inflorescence
    the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Inflorescence
    A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.
  2. Inflorescence
    (Bot) An axis on which all the buds are flower buds.
  3. Inflorescence
    (Bot) The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) inflorescence
    A beginning to blossom; a flowering; the unfolding of blossoms.
  2. (n) inflorescence
    In botany, the arrangement of flowers on the axis and in relation to each other. This term, meaning literally time of flower-bearing, was first proposed by Linnæus, and should be replaced by the more correct term anthotaxis, which is formed on the analogy of phyllotaxis. Inflorescence is really the subject of ramification or branching, but is also interested in part in foliation and phyllotaxy. Not withstanding the seemingly many diverse kinds of inflorescence, they are all reducible to two fundamental types, the definite or cymose and the indefinite or botryose. The figures above illustrate some of the most important modifications of the two types.
  3. (n) inflorescence
    See the adjectives.
  4. (n) inflorescence
    In botany:
  5. (n) inflorescence
    The portion of a plant devoted to reproduction, including the flowers, peduncles, rachides, general axes, flower-stalks, scapes, etc.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Inflorescence
    in-flor-es′ens character or mode of flowering of a plant.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. inflorescens, p. pr. of inflorescere, to begin to blossom; pref. in-, in + florescere, to begin to blossom: cf. F. inflorescence,. See Florescent

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr.,—L. inflorescens—inflorescĕre, to begin to blossom.

Usage in the news

The effects of average daily temperature on time to flower and number of flowers or inflorescences (at first flowering. greenhousegrower.com

Usage in literature

Later, man thought of obtaining a generous dish with a thousand little sprays of the inflorescence. "The Wonders of Instinct" by J. H. Fabre

I will hang up the inflorescence of a banana-plant. "Filipino Popular Tales" by Dean S. Fansler

Such a branch-system is called an inflorescence. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1" by Various

Prolonged inflorescence of fig 205 107. "Vegetable Teratology" by Maxwell T. Masters

The flowers are aggregated together on distinct shoots constituting the inflorescence of grasses. "A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses" by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

The number of inflorescences borne by species is an important character in some cases. "Manual of American Grape-Growing" by U. P. Hedrick

The lower branches of this inflorescence may be as much as 3.5 meters long, the upper shorter, the highest about one meter in length. "Philippine Mats" by Hugo H. Miller

Inflorescence loose and open, 15-30 cm. "The Plants of Michigan" by Henry Allan Gleason

POSITION AND ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS, OR INFLORESCENCE. "The Elements of Botany" by Asa Gray

Tuba is the fresh or mildly fermented sap drawn from the inflorescence of the cocoanut. "The Cocoanut" by William S. Lyon

Usage in poetry
Ah, that one night! I think Love's very essence
Distilled itself from out my joy and pain,
Like tropical trees, whose fervid inflorescence
Glows, gleams, and dies, never to bloom again.
"Farewell" by Laurence Hope