Panicle Definition

pănĭ-kəl
noun
A loose, irregularly branched, indeterminate flower cluster; compound raceme.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Panicle

Noun

Singular:
panicle
Plural:
panicles

Origin of Panicle

  • From Latin panicula, diminutive of panus (“ear of millet, literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'"), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pÄ“nos, “web"), πηνίον (pÄ“nion, “bobbin").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin pānicula feminine diminutive of pānus a swelling, main stalk of a panicle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Panicle Sentence Examples

  • The spikelets form a loose panicle,)(Ix.

  • Spikelets falling singly from the unjointed rachis of the spike or the ultimate branches of the panicle.

  • Amphicarpum, native in the southeastern United States, has fertile cleistogamous spikelets on filiform runners at the base of the culm, those on the terminal panicle are sterile.

  • Aira is a genus of delicate annuals with slender hair-like branches of the panicle.

  • Dactylis glomerata (cock's-foot), a perennial grass with a dense panicle, common in pastures and waste places is a useful meadow-grass.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAN

Words Ending With

ELECLE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With P7 Letter Words Ending With E