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Volume 6 · 57 words · 1810 Edition

properly signifies a cluster of ivy berries. Among botanists, it is a mode of flowering in which the lesser or partial flower stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides; and though of unequal lengths, rise to the same height, so as to form a flat and even surface at the top. See Botany Index.