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

Flower-heads.—Terminating the paniculate branches; large; two inches or so across; white, changing to rose or lilac; of ray-flowers only.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate.

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

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.

Eriochloa.Inflorescence racemed or paniculate; glumes four, first two glumes unequal 4.

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

Leaves all nearly filiform and upper face hispidulous scabrous; inflorescence more paniculate; corolla small, the expanded limb only 6´´ in diameter.

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