raceme Bot.
(rəˈsiːm)
[ad. L. racēm-us a cluster of grapes: cf. F. racème.]
A simple inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged on short, nearly equal, lateral pedicels, at equal distances on an elongated axis.
compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.
| 1785 Martyn tr. Rousseau's Botany xxiii. (1794) 321 The flowers also grow in a raceme. 1835 Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. App. 352 Each germ looks like what botanists call a raceme of bell-shaped flowers. 1857 Henfrey Bot. §127 The raceme differs only from the spike in having the flowers distinctly stalked. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 293 The Berberis Mahonia, with its..long slender racemes of yellow flowers. |
Hence raˈcemed a., disposed in racemes.
| 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 292 Flowers..arranged in a spiked, racemed, or panicled manner. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 225 Flowers racemed drooping..Hare-bell. |