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Webster 1913 Edition

(rȧ-sēm′; 277)

Noun.

[L.

racemus

a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See

(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.

Noun.

[L. racemus, a bunch of berries.

In botany a species of inflorescence, consisting of a peduncle with short lateral branches. It is simple or compound, naked or leafy, &c.

See also: raceme

racème m ‎(plural racèmes)