pan|i|cle

pan|i|cle
pan|i|cle «PAN uh kuhl», noun. Botany.
1. a loose, diversely branching flower cluster. A panicle is produced when a raceme becomes irregularly compound and is one kind of indeterminate inflorescence: »

a panicle of oats.

2. any loose, diversely branching cluster in which the flowers are borne on pedicels.
[< Latin pānicula (diminutive) < pānus a swelling; thread wound on a bobbin; ear of millet]

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