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raceme


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Raceme  \Ra*ceme"\,  n.  [L.  racemus  a  bunch  of  berries,  a  cluster 
  of  grapes.  See  {Raisin}.]  (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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  raceme 
  n  :  usually  elongate  cluster  of  flowers  along  the  main  stem  in 
  which  the  flowers  at  the  base  open  first 




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