Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Raceme
Ra-ceme′
(rȧ-sēm′; 277)
, Noun.
[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.
Compound raceme
, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Raceme
RAC'EME
,Noun.
In botany a species of inflorescence, consisting of a peduncle with short lateral branches. It is simple or compound, naked or leafy, &c.
Definition 2024
raceme
raceme
See also: racème
English
Noun
raceme (plural racemes)
- (botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.
Hyponyms
Related terms
Coordinate terms
Translations
botany: an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis