glomerule

A noun referring to a compact cluster or a sessile cyme, typically used in botanical contexts.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant un groupement compact ou une inflorescence sessile (dichasium), généralement utilisé dans un contexte botanique.

1. Botanical term C2 formal

   A compact cluster of flowers, often sessile, forming a small head or dense cyme.

   • The plant's inflorescence is a glomerule of tiny white flowers.
   • Botanists studied the glomerule structure under a microscope.
   • Each glomerule contains several tightly packed florets.

   🇫🇷Glomérule (botanique)

   Synonymes: glomerulus

• glomerules plural form
• glomerules' possessive plural form
• glomerule's possessive singular form