Meaning & use
raceme
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A flower cluster in which individual flowers are attached by short stalks at intervals along a central stem, blooming from the bottom upward.
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The foxglove's raceme of purple flowers rises above the garden bed.
Botanists identified the plant by the distinctive shape of its raceme.
A note on using this word
From the Latin 'racemus,' meaning a cluster of grapes.
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