Raceme \Ra*ceme"\, n. [L. racemus a bunch of berries, a cluster of grapes. See Raisin.]

(Bot.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

Compound raceme, one having the lower pedicels developed into secondary racemes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)