inflorescence

1. 1.

   the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

   Synonymsblossomingfloweringflorescenceanthesisefflorescence

   Broadergrowth
2. 2.

   the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk

   Broaderflower

   Narrowerflower headcatkinumbelcorymbflower clustercymespike

   Partsbract

Other forms of inflorescence

plural

inflorescences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inflorescence

What does inflorescence mean?

inflorescence means "the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inflorescence?

inflorescence has 4 syllables: in-flo-re-scence. The stress falls on "flo".

What is another word for inflorescence?

Close synonyms include blossoming, flowering, florescence, anthesis, efflorescence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inflorescence a common word?

inflorescence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.