paniculate

American  

[puh-nik-yuh-leyt, -lit] / pəˈnɪk yəˌleɪt, -lɪt /

Sometimes paniculated

adjective

Botany.

1. arranged in panicles.

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paniculate British  

/ pəˈnɪkjʊˌleɪt, -lɪt /

adjective

1. botany growing or arranged in panicles

   a paniculate inflorescence

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Other Word Forms

• paniculately adverb

Etymology

Origin of paniculate

First recorded in 1720–30, paniculate is from the New Latin word pāniculātus panicled. See panicle, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Style filiform, nearly persistent; stigma of 2 broad lamellæ.—Glaucous large-flowered annuals, with more or less clasping and connate leaves, and slender terminal and more or less paniculate 1-flowered peduncles.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The flowers are of no great account, being rather inconspicuous and paniculate.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan

Every variety of racemose and paniculate inflorescence obtains, and the number of spikelets composing those of the large kinds is often immense.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Pommereulla.Inflorescence paniculate, spikelets few or many-flowered, glumes many-nerved and many-awned.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Among grasses such a branching of the inflorescence is exceedingly common,—which is the more readily understood as the normal inflorescence is in so many cases paniculate.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.