the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
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"This language may seem complicated and excessive," writes naturalist Emily Stone in "Learn to Speak Fluent Botany," in the Appleton Post Crescent, out of Appleton & the Fox Cities in Wisconsin. "But for humans, to name things is to see things, and vice versa."
Read more about Stone's botanical vocabulary lesson here.