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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
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ament, catkin
a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence
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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
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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
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flower cluster
an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers
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cyme
more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first
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spike
(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
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raceme
usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first
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thyrse, thyrsus
a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose
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cymule
a small cyme, generally with few flowers
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glomerule
a compacted or sessile cyme
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scorpioid cyme
a cyme with flowers or branches alternating in opposite ranks
