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A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

An axis on which all the flower buds. Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants. Milne. Centrifugal inflorescence, determinate inflorescence. -- Centripetal inflorescence, indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate.

A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.

the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

e arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.

Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence. Gray.

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

ches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of brachts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. Coma Berenices ( Etym: [L.] (Astron.), a small constellation north of Virgo; -- called also Berenice's Hair.

lass of persons or things; -- also called a definitive. See Definitive, n. -- Definite inflorescence. (Bot.) See Determinate inflorescence, under Determinate. -- Law of definite proportions (Chem.), the essential law of chemical combination that every definite compound always contains the same elements in the same pr…

A shortened form of Academia della Crusca, an academy in Florescence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conversing the purity of the Italian language.

lute. [Obs.] More determinate to do than skillful how to do. Sir P. Sidney. Determinate inflorescence (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; -- also called centrifugal inflorescence. -- Determinate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of a li…

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

Covered with an efflorescence.