Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow;
- Example: "lilies of the valley are racemose"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Racemose \Rac"e*mose`\ (r[a^]s"[-e]*m[=o]s`), a. [L. racemosus
full of clusters.]
Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as,
(Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose
glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a
raceme. --Gray.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
racemose
adj 1: having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that
continue to open in succession from below as the stem
continues to grow; "lilies of the valley are racemose"