panicle

noun Botany.

1. a compound raceme.
2. any loose, diversely branching flower cluster.

noun

1. a compound raceme, occurring esp in grasses
2. any branched inflorescence

1. A branched indeterminate inflorescence in which the branches are racemes, so that each flower has its own stalk (called a pedicel) attached to the branch. Oats and sorghum have panicles. See illustration at inflorescence.