How to Use raceme in a Sentence
raceme
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Showy, lupine-like blooms stand upright on long racemes above the foliage in shades of blue, yellow, purple, or white, depending on the species.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
25 Aug. 2025
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In white fonio, the inflorescence is composed of 3–5 digitate racemes with spikelets in pairs or threes.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Mar. 2026
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This selection blooms at an early age, with lovely, lightly fragrant racemes gracefully falling downward.
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Zoe Gowen,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2026
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Growing as high as 3 feet and as wide as 2 feet, the violet-blue flowers appear on dense spike-like racemes from June to September.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
10 May 2026
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The spikes to which Hoyland refers are conical racemes, up to 16 inches long, each of which may bear between 100 and 300 tubular, orange-red blooms.
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Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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In black fonio, the inflorescence (cluster of flowers on a stem) is composed of 4–10 digitate racemes (branches that radiate from a single point, resembling fingers on a hand) with spikelets in threes.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Mar. 2026
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