Meaning of INFLORESCENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `inflow'resuns
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- [n] the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
- [n] the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
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| | Synonyms: | | anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
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| | See Also: | | ament, bloom, blossom, bract, catkin, corymb, cyme, development, flower, flower head, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, raceme, spike, umbel | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`flo*res"cence\, n. [L. inflorescens, p. pr. of
inflorescere to begin to blossom; pref. in- in + florescere
to begin to blossom: cf.F. inflorescence. See {Florescent}.]
1. A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.
2. (Bot.)
(a) The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and
disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis,
and to each other.
(b) An axis on which all the flower buds.
Inflorescence affords an excellent
characteristic mark in distinguishing the
species of plants. --Milne.
{Centrifugal inflorescence}, determinate inflorescence.
{Centripetal inflorescence}, indeterminate inflorescence. See
under {Determinate}, and {Indeterminate}.
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| | Definition: | | Flowerhead of a plant. |
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| | Definition: | | The group or arrangement in which flowers are borne on a plant. |
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