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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Panicle \Pan"i*cle\, n. [L. panicula a tuft on plants, dim. of
panus the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle; cf Gr
?, ?; 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
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
panicle
n : compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers
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