单词 | inflorescence |
释义 | inflorescence (once / 14886 pages) n WORD FAMILY inflorescence: inflorescences+/florescence: inflorescence USAGE EXAMPLESThe corpse flower is technically not a single flower but an inflorescence—many small flowers on a single structure. The New Yorker(Aug 01, 2016) In a variety named Midnight, the whole inflorescence is a dark, velvety purple. Washington Post(May 03, 2016) The switch from vegetative growth to flowering in the plant Arabidopsis involves two phases—inflorescence branching and flowering. Science Magazine(May 08, 2014) 1n the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk Hypo|Hyper flower head a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae ament, catkina cylindrical spikelike inflorescence umbelflat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center corymbflat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first flower clusteran inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers cymemore or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first spike(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis racemeusually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first thyrse, thyrsusa dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose cymulea small cyme, generally with few flowers glomerulea compacted or sessile cyme scorpioid cymea cyme with flowers or branches alternating in opposite ranks bloom, blossom, flower reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts 2n the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms Syn|Hyper anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level |
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