Etymology

racemose

R1A1C3E1M3O1S1E1

Today it means: Having flowers arranged along a single central axis, as in a raceme, spike, or catkin. Full definition →

Latin racēmōsus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromracēmōsus“full of clusters”
  2. English todayracemose

From Latin racēmōsus (“full of clusters”), from racēmus (“cluster, bunch”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.