Ra*ceme" (?), n. [L. racemus a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See Raisin.] Bot.

A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

 

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