Sentence example with the word 'raceme'

raceme

Definition n. usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first

Last update: September 25, 2015


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Tofieldia, an arctic and alpine genus of small herbs with a slender scape springing from a tuft of narrow ensiform leaves and bearing a raceme of small green flowers; Narthecium (bog-asphodel), herbs with a habit similar to Tofieldia, but with larger golden-yellow flowers; and Colchicum, a genus with about 30 species including b the meadow saffron or autumn crocus (C. autumnale).   [Please select]

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Now this plant produces several flowers on a raceme and many racemes during a season.   [Please select]

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Now this plant produces several flowers on a raceme, and many racemes during a season.   [Please select]

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He then fertilised sixteen flowers produced by the same raceme, one with another, but obtained only three capsules, one of which alone contained any good seeds, namely, two in number.   [Please select]

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Scott has seen twenty capsules produced on a single raceme: ten such racemes on the Acropera would yield above seventy-four millions of seed.   [Please select]

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