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inflorescence Bot.|ɪnflɒˈrɛsəns|
[ad. mod.L. inflōrēscentia (Linnæus), f. L. inflōrēscĕre to come into flower: see in-2 and florescence. Cf. F. inflorescence (1792 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The mode in which the flowers of a plant are arranged in relation to the axis and to each other; the flowering system.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. (1765) 217 Inflorescence is the manner in which the Flowers are fastened to the Plant by the Peduncle. Ibid. 224 Inflorescence affords the truest, and in most Genera the most elegant Distinction. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xix. 272. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 134 Flowers often with a centrifugal inflorescence. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. i. vii. 82 It is convenient to speak of the Flowering System, or mode of arrangement of the flowers of plants, as the Inflorescence. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. v. (ed. 6) 141 Inflorescence, a term which would literally denote the time of flower-bearing, was applied by Linnæus to the mode, that is, to the disposition of blossoms on the axis and as respects their arrangement with regard to each other. Anthotaxy..is a better term.
b. The collective flower or blossom of a plant.
1851Beck's Florist 128 There they produce their brilliant inflorescence amid a variety of Passion-flowers, Bromelias, and Ferns. 1854Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. ii. 52 In mass, the inflorescence resembles sheets of flame. 1857Henfrey Bot. §115 The solitary flower, or the connected system of flowers arising from one point, is called the inflorescence. 1884Roe Nat. Ser. Story vii, There are few objects of more exquisite..beauty than this inflorescence.
2. The process of flowering or coming into flower; blossoming. Also fig.
1800Asiatic Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr. 271/2 No leaves during inflorescence. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 358 Early flowering grasses..at their period of inflorescence. 1885O. W. Holmes in Century Mag. XXX. 488 Those who are just coming into their time of inflorescence. |