-
nounthe time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Similar:
type of: -
nounthe flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
Definition that contains inflorescence
- 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