|  inflorescence 
 
 1. the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
 • Syn:
 blossoming, flowering, florescence, anthesis, efflorescence
 • Derivationally related forms:
 efflorescent (for: efflorescence), effloresce (for: efflorescence), flower (for: flowering)
 • Hypernyms:
 growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
 2. the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
 • Hypernyms:
 flower, bloom, blossom
 • Hyponyms:
 flower head, catkin, ament, umbel, corymb,
 flower cluster, cyme, spike
 • Part Meronyms:
 bract
 
 
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