Word Meanings - INFLORESCENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

begin to blossom; pref. in- in + florescere to begin to blossom: 1. A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms. The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each

Additional info about word: INFLORESCENCE

begin to blossom; pref. in- in + florescere to begin to blossom: 1. A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms. The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other. An axis on which all the flower buds. Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants. Milne. Centrifugal inflorescence, determinate inflorescence. -- Centripetal inflorescence, indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate.

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• FORTHPUTING
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• FLOWERY
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• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• PUTTYROOT
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  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• FLOWERLESS
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• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• PUTTER-ON
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• FORTHCOMING
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• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• BEGIN
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  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• FORTHWARD
  Forward. Bp. Fisher.
• UNFOLDMENT
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• PUTT
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  Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.
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• CAULIFLOWER
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• WHENCEFORTH
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