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inflorescence
n.
blooming, blossoming, flowering; arrangement of flowers on plant stem (Botany); cluster of flowers (Botany)
Inflorescence
An
inflorescence is a group or cluster of
flowers arranged on a
stem that is composed of a main
branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.
Morphologically, it is the part of the
shoot of
seed plants where
flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the
internodes and the
phyllotaxis, as well as variations in the proportions, compressions, swellings,
adnations,
connations and reduction of main and secondary axes. Inflorescence can also be defined as the reproductive portion of a plant that bears a cluster of flowers in a specific pattern.
inflorescence
Noun
1. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
(synonym) blossoming, flowering, florescence, anthesis, efflorescence
(hypernym) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
2. the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
(hypernym) flower, bloom, blossom
(hyponym) flower head
(part-meronym) bract
inflorescence
nf.
inflorescence, blooming (Botany)
Inflorescence
(n.)
The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other.
(n.)
An axis on which all the flower buds.
(n.)
A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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