inflorescencen.
/ɪnflɒˈrɛsəns/ Botany.
1.
a. The mode in which the flowers of a plant are arranged in relation to the axis and to each other; the flowering system.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > arrangement of flowers on plant or inflorescence
inflorescence1760
anthemy1879
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxi. 212 Inflorescence, is the manner in which the Flowers are fastened to the Plant by the Peduncle.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. 219 Inflorescence affords the truest, and in most Genera the most elegant Distinction.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xix. 279 The leading feature in distinguishing the species of this genus is the inflorescence or manner of flowering.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 134 Flowers often with a centrifugal inflorescence.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. vii. 82 It is convenient to speak of the Flowering System, or mode of arrangement of the flowers of plants, as the Inflorescence.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. v. 141 Inflorescence, a term which would literally denote the time of flower-bearing, was applied by Linnæus to the mode, that is, to the disposition of blossoms on the axis and as respects their arrangement with regard to each other. Anthotaxy..is a better term.
b. The collective flower or blossom of a plant.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun]
crowna1350
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tuft?1523
coronet1555
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seed head1597
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capitulum1704
glome1793
glomerule1793
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flower-head1839
inflorescence1851
1851 Beck's Florist 128 There they produce their brilliant inflorescence amid a variety of Passion-flowers, Bromelias, and Ferns.
1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. I. ii. 52 In mass, the inflorescence resembles sheets of flame.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §115 The solitary flower, or the connected system of flowers arising from one point, is called the inflorescence.
1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story vii There are few objects of more exquisite..beauty than this inflorescence.
2. The process of flowering or coming into flower; blossoming. Also figurative.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > flowering or blossoming
flourishing1303
blowingc1380
blossomingc1440
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efflorescence1626
flowering1629
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florification1796
inflorescence1801
flowerage1841
florescence1853
floriferousness1882
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 271/2 No leaves during inflorescence.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 230 Early flowering grasses..at their period of inflorescence.
1885 O. W. Holmes in Cent. Mag. XXX. 488 Those who are just coming into their time of inflorescence.
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