noun botany A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it.noun obsolete, rare A “ head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.) an opening bud.noun (Bot.) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun A panicle, the elongation of all the ramifications of which is arrested so that it has the appearance of an umbel.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun In botany: An inflorescence of the definite or determinate class any form of inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the inflorescence being continued by secondary, tertiary, and other axes.noun A usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main axis and each branch end in a flower that opens before the flowers below or to the side of it.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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