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noun
- 1. a loose branching cluster of flowers, as in oats.
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noun. pan· i· cle ˈpa-ni-kəl. 1. : a compound racemose inflorescence see inflorescence illustration. 2. : a pyramidal loosely branched flower cluster. panicled. ˈpa-ni-kəld. adjective. paniculate. pa-ˈni-kyə-lət. pə- adjective. Examples of panicle in a Sentence.
A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. [1] Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are often racemes.
panicle. / păn ′ ĭ-kəl /. A branched indeterminate inflorescence in which the branches are racemes, so that each flower has its own stalk (called a pedicel) attached to the branch. Oats and sorghum have panicles. See illustration at inflorescence. Discover More.
Dictionary > Examples of panicle. panicle isn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help! Farmers were also asked the length of time they kept panicles in the field before threshing and how they were kept. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
2 meanings: 1. a compound raceme, occurring esp in grasses 2. any branched inflorescence.... Click for more definitions.
n. 1. (Botany) a compound raceme, occurring esp in grasses. 2. (Botany) any branched inflorescence. [C16: from Latin pānicula tuft, diminutive of panus thread, ultimately from Greek penos web; related to penion bobbin]
Panicle definition: A loosely branched inflorescence, especially a branching raceme.
