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Definitions of inflorescence
  1. noun
    the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
  2. noun
    the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
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  • ray a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
  • spike (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
  • ament a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
  • catkin a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
  • umbel flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center
  • glume small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
  • pedicle a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
  • bract a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence
  • spathe a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence
  • catasetum genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences
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