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Raceme

Definition: Raceme

Raceme

Noun

1. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Raceme \Ra*ceme"\, noun. [Latin expression racemus bunch of berries, cluster of grapes. See Raisin.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Raceme

English words defined with "raceme": bear grass, broad-leaved montia, broad-leaved twaybladeCatasetum macrocarpum, Clatonia lanceolata, Compound raceme, Convallaria majalisfoxtail orchidGrape flower, grape hyacinthHabenaria orbiculata, helleborinejumping orchidlesser twayblade, lilies of the valley, lily of the valley, Listera convallarioides, Listera cordata, Listera ovataMarsh asphodel, May lily, Montia cordifoliapanicleRacemed, Racemiform, Racemule, rattlesnake plantain, Rhachis, round-leaved rein orchidspring beautyTurkey beard, twaybladeYucca glauca, Yucca smalliana. (references)
Etymologies containing "raceme": Racemation, Raisin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Raceme" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (raceme).

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Specialty Definition: Raceme

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched, indeterminate, and bears pedicellate (having short floral stalks) flowers along the axis. The oldest flowers being borne near the base.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Raceme."

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Image Slideshow: Raceme

Illustrations:
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Expression: Raceme

Expression using "raceme": Compound raceme. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Raceme

Language Translations for "raceme"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vile (bunch, cluster), vesh (accredit, apparel, array, arrogate, ascribe, attire, attribute, back, cannon, clothe, coat, cover up, Don, dress, ear, endue, enrobe, face, garb, gird, hanger, impute, inlay, invest, line, lug, overlay, paper, pop, pull on, put on, revet, sheathe, tapestry, throw on, tog, vesture, wear, whack). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عنقود (bob, bunch, cluster, fascicle, panicle, truss, tuft), ‏عذق, ‏شمراخ. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

грозд (cluster, fascicle, fascicule, truss). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

terttu (cluster). (various references)

   

German

  

traube (bunch of grapes, cluster, grape). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βοτρυοειδέσ άνθοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fürt (bunch, cluster, curl, stem, tress). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tandan (cluster). (various references)

   

Italian

  

racemo. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

総状花序 (racemous inflorescence). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうじょうかじょ (racemous inflorescence). (various references)

   

Manx

  

crouw-vlaaghey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acemeray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cacho (bunch, cluster, curl, lock). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

raceme. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кисть (brush, brushwork, bunch of grapes, cluster, paintbrush, pencil). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

grozd (bunch, cluster). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

racimo (bunch, cluster, grape, racemation, truss). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

blomklase (cluster of banana flowers). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ช่อ"อกไม้แบบที่มีก้าน"อกเล็กๆ แยกจากก้านใหญ่. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

salkım (bunch, bunch of grapes, cluster, corymb, fascicle, fascicule, hand), çiçek salkımı (thyrsus). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

китиця, гроно (cluster, racemation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Raceme

Derivations

Words beginning with "raceme": racemed, racemes. (additional references)

Words containing "raceme": embracement, embracements. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Raceme" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arcame, Argemi, Gaucelme, Hachemi, raccine, Rachmat, Rachmil, Racisme, racom, Rakim, Ramcom, rasim, Rasimi, Raucana, rcvma, recomme, recompe, reseme, rochem, rvcma, rvcvma. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Raceme

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amerce.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-m-r"

-1 letter: ameer, cream, creme, macer, ramee.

-2 letters: acme, acre, came, care, cere, cram, mace, marc, mare, mere, race, ream.

-3 letters: ace, arc, are, arm, cam, car, cee, ear, eme, era, ere, mac, mae, mar, ram, rec, ree, rem.

-4 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-m-r"
 

+1 letter: amerced, amercer, amerces, camerae, creamed, creamer, cremate, embrace, machree, menacer, racemed, racemes, reclame.

 

+2 letters: amercers, cambered, cameleer, camporee, cashmere, casimere, creamers, creamery, creamier, cremated, cremates, crewmate, demarche, embraced, embracer, embraces, icemaker, macerate, machrees, mackerel, marchese, medicare, menacers, menarche, overcame, racemate, racemize, racemose, rearmice, recamier, reclames, screamed, screamer.

 

+3 letters: archenemy, becharmed, cameleers, cameramen, camporees, careerism, cashmeres, casimeres, cassimere, chambered, chamfered, charmeuse, clambered, clamberer, creamiest, creamware, crewmates, decameter, declaimer, demarcate, demarches, embraceor, embracers, embracery, embracive, exclaimer, forcemeat, geomancer, icemakers, imprecate, latecomer, macerated, macerates, mackerels, macromere, marcelled, medicares, menarches, mercenary, mercurate, metameric, miscreate, octameter, pacemaker, racemates, racemized, racemizes, recamiers, reclaimed, remanence, rematched, rematches, sarcomere, scampered, screamers, smearcase, smiercase.

 

+4 letters: accruement, acidimeter, aerenchyma, amercement, amerciable, bacteremia, bacteremic, beclamored, bedchamber, camerlengo, caramelise, caramelize, careerisms, cassimeres, ceremonial, charmeuses, cinemagoer, clamberers, coenamored, commandeer, creameries, creaminess, creamwares, decameters, decametric, decemviral, declaimers, dekametric, demarcated, demarcates, descramble, ectodermal, embraceors, eremitical, escarpment, exclaimers, forcemeats, geomancers, gramercies, hermetical, imprecated, imprecates, latecomers, macromeres, masseteric, mechanizer, meerschaum, megaparsec, menarcheal, mercantile, merchanted, mercurated, mercurates, metacenter, miscreated, miscreates, numeracies, octameters, pacemakers, peacemaker, permanence, permanency, preachment, premedical, remanences, remittance, sarcomeres, semisacred, serviceman, smearcases, smiercases, spermaceti, tachometer, temperance, tetrameric.

 

+5 letters: accruements, acidimeters, acquirement, actinometer, aerenchymas, aeromedical, amenorrheic, amercements, antechamber, archenemies, bacteremias, beachcomber, bedchambers, benchwarmer, calorimeter, camaraderie, camerawomen, camerlengos, caramelised, caramelises, caramelized, caramelizes, ceremonials, champerties, checkmarked, cinemagoers, coffeemaker, commandeers, commemorate, commiserate, comraderies, crematories, decemvirate, decremental, democracies, democratize, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, determinacy, elastomeric, electrogram, embarcadero, embraceable, embracement, embraceries, encumbrance, escarpments, excremental, geometrical, incremental, machineries, macrogamete, marketplace, masterpiece, mechanizers, mediatrices, meerschaums, megaparsecs, megaproject, mercenaries, mercenarily, merchandise, merchandize, merchantmen, metacenters, metacentric, metanephric, microampere, microgamete, microreader, necromancer, overclaimed, overcrammed, overmatched, overmatches, peacemakers, performance, permanences, preachments, predicament, reclaimable, recriminate, reenactment, remembrance, remittances, replacement, resemblance, scaremonger, schwarmerei, scleroderma, spermacetis, spermatheca, supremacies, tachometers, temperances, theorematic, traducement, trencherman, unreclaimed, vermiculate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Raceme


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 63 65 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01100011 01100101 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#99 &#101 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0063 0065 006D 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

526769717971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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