Păn'i-ele, n.

n. [Lat. panicula, a tuft on plants, diminutive of panus, the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle. Gr. πῆνυς, Dor. πᾶνος; Fr. panicule.] (Bot.) A form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is much and irregularly branched, in a branched raceme, as in oats and some of the grasses. The panicle is of various kinds, as the dense or close, the spiked, the spreading or diffused, the divaricating. Martyn.