Definitions for racemes

racemes ra·ceme

Spelling: [rey-seem, ruh-]
IPA: /reɪˈsim, rə-/

Racemes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in racemes (aceemrs).

Definitions for racemes

noun

  1. a simple indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are borne on short pedicels lying along a common axis, as in the lily of the valley.
  2. a compound inflorescence in which the short pedicels with single flowers of the simple raceme are replaced by racemes.

Origin of racemes

First recorded in 1775-85, raceme is from the Latin word racēmus cluster of grapes, bunch of berries

Examples for racemes

For, as a rule, the nearer the flower to the tip of the raceme in the pear, the shorter the stem on the fruit.

The leaves of this plant are linear and channelled, and the drooping flowers form a raceme of from six to twelve blooms.

Now this plant produces several flowers on a raceme and many racemes during a season.

A raceme of flowers, much longer than the leaves, arises from several of the nodes.

Its raceme of white flowers and its black berries are also known to me; but alas, only in a garden.

This form of inflorescence is known technically as a “raceme.”

Spike, an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile, 74.

In this specimen a raceme of small flowers was included within the enlarged pericarp of a species of Anchusa.

Diagram of a simple cyme in which the axis lengthens, so as to take the form of a raceme.

Four large compound leaves, each consisting of five or seven leaflets, and a raceme of sixty-eight flowers, have Fig. 129.

Word Value for racemes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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