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panicle

[ pan-i-kuhl ]

noun

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


panicle

/ ˈpænɪkəl /

noun

  1. a compound raceme, occurring esp in grasses
  2. any branched inflorescence
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panicle

/ pănĭ-kəl /

  1. A branched indeterminate inflorescence in which the branches are racemes, so that each flower has its own stalk (called a pedicel) attached to the branch. Oats and sorghum have panicles.
  2. See illustration at inflorescence


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Derived Forms

  • ˈpanicled, adjective
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Other Words From

  • pani·cled adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of panicle1

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; -i-, -cle 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of panicle1

C16: from Latin pānicula tuft, diminutive of panus thread, ultimately from Greek penos web; related to penion bobbin
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Example Sentences

Unlike the other species of the same genus, its flowers form an erect spreading panicle, and the glumes are not keeled.

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

The pretty red or rose-coloured flowers are arranged in a very loose terminal panicle, and have no scent.

The flowers are sessile, in little rounded heads; the whole inflorescence forming an irregular umbel or a loose panicle.

The flowers are very numerous, of a bright golden yellow-colour, forming a dense, terminal panicle.

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