Racemose Definition

Racemose Sentence Examples

• Bulbous plants with a terminal racemose inflorescence; the anthers open introrsely and the capsule is loculicidal.

• Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.

• Thus we may have a group of racemes, arranged in a racemose manner on a common axis, forming a raceme of racemes or compound raceme, as in Astilbe.

• Again, there may be a raceme of capitula, that is, a group of capitula disposed in a racemose manner, as in Petasites, a raceme of umbels, as in ivy, and so on, all the forms of inflorescence being indefinite in disposition.

• In such cases the cymes are described as spiked, racemose, or panicled, according to circumstances.