Indeterminate inflorescence

(Bot.)

a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; - called also acropetal inflorescence, botryose inflorescence, centripetal inflorescence, and indefinite inflorescence.

See also: Indeterminate

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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