Ra-cēme', n.

noun

(Synop., § 130), n. [Lat. racēmus, the stalk of a cluster of grapes and similar plants, a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes, allied to Gr. ῥάξ, ῥαγός, a berry, especially a grape; It. racemo, Sp. & Pg. racimo.] (Bot.) A flower-cluster with short and equal lateral one-flowered pedicels, as in the currant. Lindley.

Compound raceme, one having pedicels more than one-flowered.

A botanical drawing of a flowering stem bearing blossoms along a central stalk. — Raceme.