inflorescence : Idioms & Phrases

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Centrifugal inflorescence

  • determinate inflorescence.
Webster 1913

Centripetal inflorescence

  • indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate.
Webster 1913

Definite inflorescence

  • . (Bot.) See Determinate inflorescence, under Determinate.
Webster 1913

Determinate inflorescence

  • (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; also called centrifugal inflorescence.
Webster 1913

Indefinite inflorescence

  • . (Bot.) See Indeterminate inflorescence, under Indeterminate.
Webster 1913

Indeterminate inflorescence

  • (Bot.), a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; called also acropetal, botryose, centripetal, ∧ indefinite inflorescence. Gray.
Webster 1913