Definitions for racemose

racemose rac·e·mose

Spelling: [ras-uh-mohs]
IPA: /ˈræs əˌmoʊs/

Racemose is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 373 anagrams from letters in racemose (aceemors).

Definitions for racemose

adjective

  1. Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
  2. Anatomy. (of a gland) resembling a bunch of grapes; having branching ducts that end in acini.

Origin of racemose

First recorded in 1690-1700, racemose is from the Latin word racēmōsus full of clusters, clustering. See raceme, -ose1

Examples for racemose

Flowers in racemose or panicled clusters, the fertile above, the staminate below.

(a) Simple or tubular gland, (b) compound or racemose gland.

Flowers yellowish-white, terminal in racemose panicles with opposite peduncles.

Spikelets 3–many-flowered, panicled or racemose; the flowers not webby at base.

In the bell-flower (Campanula) there is a racemose uniparous cyme.

General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.

Flowers axillary, in racemose panicles of a few flowers each.

Flowers monœcious; staminate white and racemose; pistillate solitary, growing at the base of the staminate racemes.

Flowers axillary, racemose, with a scale at the base of the peduncle, some hermaphrodite and others lacking pistils.

racemose: like a bunch of grapes: applied to ovaries when they form bunches or sacs.

Word Value for racemose
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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