racemose
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One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Flowers terminal, white, racemose, with 2 flattened peduncles.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Flowers.—Axillary on solitary peduncles; sometimes becoming racemose by the diminution of the upper leaves to bracts.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Flowers unisexual, racemose, spicate or capitate; calyx becoming fleshy or juicy in fruit.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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