racemiformadj.
/rəˈsiːmᵻfɔːm/, U.S. /rəˈsiməˌfɔrm/ 1. Botany. Of an inflorescence: having the form of a raceme.
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1812 J. Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. I. 364 Panicles racemiform, the lower foliaceous.
1860 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 11 173 Gentian... Stem ascending;..cymes racemiform.
1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 525 Fls. 7–9 on long slanting nearly or quite nude pedicels in more or less racemiform clusters.
1996 Telopea 6 749 The inflorescence structure is atypical compared to the relatively simple racemiform architecture found in the other taxa of the family.
2. Anatomy and Zoology. = racemose adj. 2. rare.
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pituita1598
pituitary1615
lymphatic1649
conglomerated1656
conglobate1666
conglomerate1666
conglobated1676
lymphic1681
conglobulate1709
sudoriferous1713
sudorific1721
sebaceous1728
trajectory1747
cryptal1754
cryptous1804
muciparous1825
racemose1834
racemiform1837
ganglionary1842
muciferous1842
sudoriparous1851
sebiparous1853
racemous1854
sebiferous1858
perilymphangial1873
lymphadenoid1877
perilymphatic1877
mucigenous1881
pituital1890
tubuloracemosec1900
acinic1903
holocrine1905
merocrine1905
exocrine1911
endocrine1914
endocrinic1914
endocrinous1914
endocrinal1923
apocrine1926
eccrine1931
psychoendocrine1946
acinar1949
nodal1954
mucigenic1965
1837 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 22 334 There is a gland [in snails] composed of roundish sacculi, and from which a winding duct extends to the uterus. In a former essay I have termed this gland the racemiform organ.
1851 P. B. Goddard Wilson's Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 4) x. 474 The sebiparous glands associated with the hairs are racemiform and lobulated in structure.
1999 Amer. Jrnl. Dermatopathol. 21 479 The tumor was a well-circumscribed cystic/solid nodule with a racemiform and reticulated pattern of growth of its epithelial cells.
2005 T. L. Gross et al. Skin Dis. Dog & Cat (ed. 2) xxv. 675/1 (caption) The mass has a circumscribed, vertically-oriented, racemiform silhouette.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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