inflorescence

English

Etymology

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

Noun

inflorescence (countable and uncountable, plural inflorescences)

1. (botany) Flower cluster; a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.
2. 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 (sǎcvétie)
• Catalan: inflorescència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花序 (zh) (huāxù)

• Czech: květenství (cs) n
• Dutch: bloeiwijze (nl) f, bloemgestel n, bloeigestel n
• Estonian: õisik
• Faroese: blómuskipan f
• Finnish: kukinto (fi)
• French: inflorescence (fr) f
• German: Blütenstand (de) m, Infloreszenz f
• Hindi: पुष्पण (puṣpaṇ)
• Hungarian: virágzat (hu)
• Ido: infloresenco (io)
• Italian: infiorescenza (it) f
• Japanese: 花序 (かじょ, kajo)
• Kazakh: гүлшоғыр (gülşoğır)
• 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 (puṣpagucch), पुष्पसंघ (puṣpasaṅgh), मंजिरी (mañjirī), पुष्पव्यवस्था (puṣpavyavasthā), फुलोरा (mr) (phulorā), पुष्पबंध (puṣpabandh)
• Norwegian: blomsterstand 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

  Roman: cvȃst (sh) f, cvȃt (sh) m

• Slovak: súkvetie n
• Slovene: socvétje n, inflorescenca f
• Spanish: inflorescencia (es) f
• Swedish: blomställning c
• Ukrainian: суцві́ття n (sucvíttja)
• Urdu: پھولداری‎
• Vietnamese: sự nở hoa (vi)

beginning to flower

• Bulgarian: цъфтеж (bg) m (cǎftež)
• Finnish: kukinta (fi)
• Hungarian: kivirágzás

• Italian: fioritura (it) f
• Russian: цвете́ние (ru) n (cveténije)