What does Raceme mean?


Raceme \Ra*ceme"\ (r[.a]*s[=e]m"; 277), n. [L. racemus a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See Raisin.]

(Bot.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry. [1913 Webster]

Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes. [1913 Webster]


raceme

noun

1: usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first




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