单词 | inflorescence |
释义 | inflorescence/ˌɪnflɔːˈrɛs(ə)ns / /ˌɪnfləˈrɛs(ə)ns/noun Botany 1The complete flower head of a plant including stems, stalks, bracts, and flowers.Flowers are generally borne solitarily in leaf axils or in inflorescences subtended by bracts, but some taxa are ebractate....
1.1The arrangement of the flowers on a plant.Quantitative genetic statistics for inflorescence traits reared under long days have been reported previously....
1.2 [mass noun] The process of flowering.Thus, significant inflorescence and floral meristem activity is restored to stm null mutant plants in the absence of ULT1 function....
OriginMid 18th century (denoting the arrangement of a plant's flowers): from modern Latin inflorescentia, from late Latin inflorescere 'come into flower', from Latin in- 'into' + florescere 'begin to flower'. |
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