anthotaxy

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement, order”)

Noun

anthotaxy (usually uncountable, plural anthotaxies)

1. (botany) The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers.

Synonyms

• inflorescence

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anthotaxy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)