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inflorescence

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Noun
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in=flo=res=cence

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun inflorescence has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

inflorescencen. [L. inflorescens, p. pr. of inflorescere to begin to blossom; pref. in- in + florescere to begin to blossom: cf. F. inflorescence. See Florescent.].
  •  A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other.  [1913 Webster]
    "Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants."  [1913 Webster]
Centrifugal inflorescence, determinate inflorescence. -- Centripetal inflorescence, indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inflorescence, n.
1 Bot. a the complete flower-head of a plant including stems, stalks, bracts, and flowers. b the arrangement of this.
2 the process of flowering.

Etymology
mod.L inflorescentia f. LL inflorescere (as IN-(2), FLORESCENCE)

ROGET THESAURUS

inflorescence

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

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