racemose, a.
(ˈræsɪməʊs)
[ad. L. racēmōs-us clustering, f. racēm-us raceme: see -ose.]
1. Bot. a. Of flowers: Arranged in racemes. b. Of an inflorescence or a vegetable growth generally: Having the form of a raceme.
| 1698 J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XX. 315 It has a racemose Flower. 1806 J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 419 Stem cross⁓branching,..Fl. racemose. 1860 Tyas Wild Fl. 176 A lengthened racemose spike of many closely crowded flowers. 1882 Vines Sachs' Bot. 179 A racemose system occurs when the monopodial mother-shoot continues to develope more strongly than all the lateral shoots, and when the lateral shoots of each successive order behave in the same manner in respect to their mother-shoot. |
2. Anat. Having the form of, arranged as, a cluster (esp. as an epithet of compound glands).
| 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 559/1 The ovisacs are racemose or connected in bunches. 1841–71 T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 785 The viscus assumes a distinctly racemose appearance. 1860 Sir H. Thompson Dis. of Prostate (1868) 34 They are not crowded upon it so as to form a compact mass, as in other racemose glands. |
Hence ˈracemosely adv., in a racemose manner.
| 1840 Paxton Bot. Dict., Racemosely-corymbose. |