inflorescence
English Thesaurus
1. the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | bloom, blossom, flower, |
| definition | : | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | flower head, |
| definition | : | a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | ament, catkin, |
| definition | : | a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | umbel, |
| definition | : | flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | corymb, |
| definition | : | flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | flower cluster, |
| definition | : | an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cyme, |
| definition | : | more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | spike, |
| definition | : | (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | bract, |
| definition | : | a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence (noun.plant) |
2. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, |
| definition | : | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level (noun.process) |
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