Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RA'CEME, n. [L. racemus, a bunch of berries.]

In botany, a species of inflorescence, consisting of a common peduncle with short and equal lateral pedicels; as a string of currants. It is simple or compound, naked or leafy, &c. A species of inflorescence in which a number of flowers with short and equal pedicels, stand upon a common slender axis. – Lindley.