FLOWER CLUSTER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("flower cluster" is a kind of...):

inflorescence (the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flower cluster"):

raceme (usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first)

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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