inflorescence

English

Etymology

From Latin inflōrēscentia, from inflōrēscō (“to begin to flower”), inchoative verb of flōreō (“to flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnfləˈɹɛsəns/, /ˌɪnflɔːˈɹɛsəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

inflorescence (countable and uncountable, plural inflorescences)

2. (botany) A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

   Synonym: flower cluster

3. An instance of a plant beginning to flower.

Hyponyms

• (flower cluster): raceme, panicle, tassel, catkin

Translations

flower cluster

• Belarusian: сукве́цце n (sukvjéccje)
• Bulgarian: съцве́тие n (săcvétie)
• Catalan: inflorescència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花序 (zh) (huāxù)

• Czech: květenství (cs) n
• Dutch: bloeiwijze (nl) f, bloemgestel n, bloeigestel n
• Esperanto: infloresko
• Estonian: õisik
• Faroese: blómuskipan f
• Finnish: kukinto (fi)
• French: inflorescence (fr) f
• Georgian: ყვავილედი (ka) (q̇vaviledi)
• German: Blütenstand (de) m, Infloreszenz f
• Greek: ταξιανθία (el) f (taxianthía), ανθοταξία (el) f (anthotaxía)
• Hindi: पुष्पण (puṣpaṇ)
• Hungarian: virágzat (hu)
• Ido: infloresenco (io)
• Indonesian: bunga majemuk (id)
• Italian: infiorescenza (it) f
• Japanese: 花序 (ja) (かじょ, kajo)
• Kazakh: гүлшоғыр (gülšoğır)
• Korean: 꽃차례 (ko) (kkotcharye), 화서 (hwaseo)
• Latin: inflorescentia f
• Latvian: ziedkopa f
• Lithuanian: žiedynas m
• Macedonian: соцве́тие n (socvétie)
• Marathi: पुष्पविन्यास (puṣpavinyās), पुष्परचना (puṣparacnā), पुष्पगुच्छ (puṣpaguccha), पुष्पसंघ (puṣpasaṅgha), मंजिरी (mañjirī), पुष्पव्यवस्था (puṣpavyavasthā), फुलोरा (mr) (phulorā), पुष्पबंध (puṣpabandha)
• Norwegian: blomsterstand (no) m
• Polish: kwiatostan (pl) m
• Portuguese: inflorescência (pt) f
• Romanian: inflorescență (ro) f
• Russian: соцве́тие (ru) n (socvétije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цва̑ст f, цва̑т m

  Latin: cvȃst (sh) f, cvȃt (sh) m

• Slovak: súkvetie n
• Slovene: socvétje n, inflorescenca f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kwiśonkowy stołk m

  Upper Sorbian: kwětnišćo n, kwětnistwo n

• Spanish: inflorescencia (es) f
• Swedish: blomställning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: суцві́ття n (sucvíttja)
• Urdu: پھولداری
• Vietnamese: sự nở hoa (vi)

beginning to flower

• Bulgarian: цъфтеж (bg) m (căftež)
• Finnish: kukinta (fi)
• Hungarian: kivirágzás (hu)
• Italian: fioritura (it) f
• Macedonian: расцветување n (rascvetuvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blomstring m

• Polish: zakwitanie (pl) n
• Russian: цвете́ние (ru) n (cveténije)

See also

• infructescence

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin īnflōrēscentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.flɔ.ʁɛ.sɑ̃s/ ~ /ɛ̃.flɔ.ʁe.sɑ̃s/, /ɛ̃.flɔ.ʁɛs.sɑ̃s/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

inflorescence f (plural inflorescences)

1. inflorescence

Related terms

• efflorescence
• fleur
• fleurir
• floraison
• infloraison

Further reading

• “inflorescence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012