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Noun: inflorescence  `in-flow're-sun(t)s
  1. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
    - blossoming, flowering, florescence, anthesis, efflorescence
     
  2. The flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk

Derived forms: inflorescences

Type of: bloom, blossom, development, flower, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny

Encyclopedia: Inflorescence