inflorescencia
See also: inflorescència and inflorescência
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin īnflōrēscentia, from Late Latin īnflōrēscō (“to be covered in flowers”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /infloɾesˈθenθja/ [ĩɱ.flo.ɾesˈθẽn̟.θja] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /infloɾeˈsensja/ [ĩɱ.flo.ɾeˈsẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: in‧flo‧res‧cen‧cia
Noun
inflorescencia f (plural inflorescencias)
Further reading
- “inflorescencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025