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noun

Inflorescence n.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

(Bot.)

(a)

The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other.

(b)

An axis on which all the buds are flower buds. "Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants."

Centrifugal inflorescence, determinate inflorescence.

Centripetal inflorescence, indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate.

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Etymology of 'Inflorescence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inflorescence" Quotes from Famous Books

... for a brief period that the blossoms of our sugar maple are sweet-scented; the perfume seems to become stale after a few days: but pass under this tree just at the right moment, say at nightfall on the first or second day of its perfect inflorescence, and the air is loaded with its sweetness; its perfumed breath falls upon you as its cool shadow ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... plants, the flowers towards the outside of the inflorescence are much larger and more conspicuous than the central ones. As I shall not have occasion to refer to plants of this kind in the following chapters, I will here give a few details respecting them. It is familiar to every ...

— The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species • Charles Darwin

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