botryose

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[], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- Shaped like a bunch of grapes; (in early use) bearing flowers in clusters or racemes, which develop successively from the base upward. Now chiefly Mycology.


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Origin:
late 19th century; earliest use found in Asa Gray (1810–1888), botanist. From ancient Greek βότρυς cluster of grapes + -ose, after German botrytisch




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