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raceme

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Noun
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ra=ceme

CIDE DICTIONARY

racemen. [L. racemus a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See Raisin.].
     A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.  [1913 Webster]
Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

raceme, n. Bot. a flower cluster with the separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distances along a central stem (cf. CYME).

Etymology
L racemus grape-bunch

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