Definitions for panicle

panicle pan·i·cle

Spelling: [pan-i-kuh l]
IPA: /ˈpæn ɪ kəl/

Panicle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in panicle (aceilnp).

Definitions for panicle

noun

  1. a compound raceme.
  2. any loose, diversely branching flower cluster.

Origin of panicle

1590-1600; Latin pānicula tuft (on plants), diminutive of pānus thread wound on a bobbin, a swelling, ear of millet Doric Greek pânos (Attic pênos) a web; see -i-,

Examples for panicle

Your case of the panicle with open flowers being sterile is parallel to that of Leersia oryzoides.

In one or two species of Aira the panicle may be somewhat contracted and tuft-like.

The panicle is often two feet long, with its string of scarlet horns.

In Eragrostis tremula the panicle is very diffuse, in Eragrostis Willdenoviana less so.

panicled, Paniculate, arranged in panicles, or like a panicle.

Sterile pinnæ pinnate; fronds large, fertile portion green, turning brown, forming a panicle at the top.

Our Indian corn carries its panicle of pollen high above the silken tresses which mother the future ear.

With the last-named gentleman a panicle, with sixty flowers upon it, is now (April, 1864) in full beauty.

The index reference for "panicle" should probably be 76, rather than 81, but was not changed.

Aira is a genus of delicate annuals with slender hair-like branches of the panicle.

Word Value for panicle
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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