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panicle

panicle noun: a compound raceme.

Noun

panicle (plural panicles)

  1. A compound raceme.
    • Inflorescence a large terminal, leafy, cross-armed panicle, composed of small, 5-flowered, terminal umbellets.1838, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 64
    • The panicle of Puya raimondii (see LARGEST BLOOM, above) emerges after 80-150 years of the plant's life and then dies.1997, Norris McWhirter, The Guinness Book of World Records 1997, page 79

panicle meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

panicle in Tamil

குஞ்சம், கூட்டுப் பூத்திரள், பூங்கொத்து

panicle in Malayalam

ബഹുശാഖാപുഷ്‌പമഞ്‌ജരി

Forms of panicle

pluralpanicles

Origin of panicle

Borrowed from Latin pānicula, diminutive of pānus (“ear of millet, literally 'thread wound on a bobbin'”), from Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”), πηνίον (pēníon, “bobbin”). Doublet of panocha.

Words formed from panicle

Questions about panicle

What does panicle mean?
Panicle means a compound raceme.
What is panicle in Tamil?
Panicle in Tamil is குஞ்சம், கூட்டுப் பூத்திரள், பூங்கொத்து. See Panicle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is panicle?
Panicle is a noun.
What is the plural of panicle?
The plural of panicle is panicles.

Words near panicle in the dictionary

  1. panicking
  2. panickingly
  3. panickings
  4. panicks
  5. panicky
  6. panicle
  7. panicled
  8. panicles
  9. panicless
  10. paniclike
  11. panicmonger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: panicle (page history and authors); panicle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); panicle (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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