Explore Inflorescence through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like blossoming or bloom. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Inflorescence meaning
- A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.
- An instance of a plant beginning to flower.
Synonyms of Inflorescence
Using Inflorescence
- The main meaning on this page is: A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. | An instance of a plant beginning to flower.
- Useful related words include: blossoming, bloom, flower, ontogenesis.
- In the example corpus, inflorescence often appears in combinations such as: the inflorescence, an inflorescence, inflorescence is.
Context around Inflorescence
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inflorescence
- In this selection, "inflorescence" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, immature, single, unbranched, flower, containing and stage stand out and add context to how "inflorescence" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a larger inflorescence so close and a raceme inflorescence. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inflorescence" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inflorescence
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Banana 'tree' showing fruit and inflorescence. (6 words)
First an inflorescence of white flowers called a head is produced. (11 words)
Flowers are attached to the stem with pedicels in a raceme inflorescence. (12 words)
A stem develops which grows up inside the pseudostem, carrying the immature inflorescence until eventually it emerges at the top.sfn Each pseudostem normally produces a single inflorescence, also known as the "banana heart". (34 words)
A. titanum has the largest unbranched inflorescence, while the talipot palm ( Corypha umbraculifera ) forms the largest branched inflorescence, containing thousands of flowers; the talipot is monocarpic, meaning the individual plants die after flowering. (33 words)
The character most commonly associated with Banksia is the flower spike, an elongated inflorescence consisting of a woody axis covered in tightly-packed pairs of flowers attached at right angles. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
A stem develops which grows up inside the pseudostem, carrying the immature inflorescence until eventually it emerges at the top.sfn Each pseudostem normally produces a single inflorescence, also known as the "banana heart".
A. titanum has the largest unbranched inflorescence, while the talipot palm ( Corypha umbraculifera ) forms the largest branched inflorescence, containing thousands of flowers; the talipot is monocarpic, meaning the individual plants die after flowering.
During the inflorescence stage female Titan arums will grow bright red and orange fruits.
No plant that I have seen produces a larger inflorescence so close to the ground.
The study pinpointed a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) on chromosome 8 linked to inflorescence number per branch, leading to the discovery of the gene.
Flowers are attached to the stem with pedicels in a raceme inflorescence.
After 12 to 20 months, the stem grows into a spike-like inflorescence up to convert long with over 100 spirally arranged, trimerous flowers, each subtended by a bract.
Asteraceans are generally easy to distinguish from other plants, mainly because of their characteristic inflorescence and other shared characteristics.
Banana 'tree' showing fruit and inflorescence.
Despite the large number of flowers per inflorescence, only a few of them ever develop fruit, and in some species a flower spike will set no fruit at all.
First an inflorescence of white flowers called a head is produced.
Multiple fruits main A multiple fruit is one formed from a cluster of flowers (called an inflorescence ).
Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA Infrageneric classification focuses on inflorescence, flower characters and whether a species is monoecious/dioecious, as in the Sauer (1955) suggested classification.
Terminally on the false stem is a convert long inflorescence stem containing many flowers.
The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix.
The character most commonly associated with Banksia is the flower spike, an elongated inflorescence consisting of a woody axis covered in tightly-packed pairs of flowers attached at right angles.
The domestic sunflower, however, often possesses only a single large inflorescence (flower head) atop an unbranched stem.
The flower, fruit, and seed Flowers main A collection of flowers forming an inflorescence The characteristic feature of angiosperms is the flower.
The "flowers" of Protea cynaroides are actually composite flower heads (termed an inflorescence ) with a collection of flowers in the centre, surrounded by large colourful bracts.
The inflorescence is an unbranched and indeterminate terminal raceme measuring convert tall, with flowers that are yellow or white.
Common combinations with inflorescence
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the inflorescence 7×
- an inflorescence 4×
- inflorescence is 4×
- per inflorescence 2×
- inflorescence flower 2×