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Webster 1913 Edition

Panicle

Pan′i-cle

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Noun.
[L.
panicula
a tuft on plants, dim. of
panus
the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle; cf. Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK]; prob. akin to E.
pane
: cf. F.
panicule
. See 2d
Pane
.]
(Bot.)
A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

Webster 1828 Edition

Panicle

PAN'ICLE

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Noun.
[L. panicula, down upon reeds, cat's tail, allied to L. pannus, cloth.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the flowers or fruits are scattered on peduncles variously subdivided, as in oats and some of the grasses. The panicle is of various kinds, as the dense or close, the spiked,the squeezed, the spreading, the diffused, the divaricating.

Definition 2024

panicle

panicle

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panicle ‎(plural panicles)

  1. (botany) A compound raceme.

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From Latin pānicula, diminutive of pānus ‎(“ear of millet, literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'”), from Ancient Greek πῆνος ‎(pênos, “web”), πηνίον ‎(pēníon, “bobbin”).

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