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Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes.
If the secondary floral axes give rise to tertiary ones, the raceme is branching, and forms a panicle, as in Yucca gloriosa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 Various. The panicle is often two feet long, with its string of scarlet horns.