inflorescence

Noun
  1. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms (synset 113460743)
    is a type of: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny - (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
    same as: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering
  2. The flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk (synset 111694783)
    is a type of: bloom, blossom, flower - reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
    subtypes:
    • flower head - 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
    • ament, catkin - a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
    • umbel - 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
    • corymb - 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
    • flower cluster - an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers
    • cyme - more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first
    • spike - (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
    has: bract - a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence

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