fleurs 5-mères

English translation: 5-merous flowers

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French term or phrase:fleurs 5-mères
English translation:5-merous flowers
Entered by: Drmanu49

16:50 Mar 31, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany / Vine leaf flowers
French term or phrase: fleurs 5-mères
I am doing a translation about vineyards and the company in question has somewhat lazily just lifted the first couple of paragraphs from French Wikipedia. The trickiest phrase is:

Les fleurs 5-mères, sont très petites, verdâtres et regroupées en grappes composées.

I do not know how to translate 5-mères here, although this site: http://www.cactuspro.com/encyclo/Sedum explains that 5-mères = pièces florales par multiple de 5.

Could anybody tell me the technical term for this in English, please?

Thanks in advance for your help.
William O'Neill
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:12
5-merous flowers
Explanation:
Monographia Aquifoliacearum - Ville de Genève
www.ville-ge.ch › Accueil › Index of species‎
Male flowers 4 -merous (4–5-mères selon _$Beck 8684_£), white. Calyx pubescent (poils courts, plus nombreux vers l'apex et sur le centre), 3–5 mm in diam., ...

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books.google.fr/books?isbn=0080567959 - Traduire cette page
M. Demerec - 1956 - ‎Science
The flowers in both parental species, and for that matter in the entire genus Gilia and almost without exception in the family Polemoniaceae, are 5-merous with 5 ...

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or pentamerous flowers

Merosity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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It is most commonly used in the context of flowers, in which case it refers to the ... 4: tetramery, tetramerous, 4-merous; 5: pentamery, pentamerous, 5-merous ...pentamerous (Meaning of) - Encyclo
www.encyclo.co.uk/define/pentamerous‎Traduire cette page
pentamerous - Meaning and definition. ... five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members; `pentamerous flowers`
Pentamerous: Definition with Pentamerous Pictures and Photos
www.lexic.us/definition-of/pentamerous‎Traduire cette page
Divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members. "Pentamerous flowers". Category relationships: Botany ...
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Drmanu49
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Excellent, fast response and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much.
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4 +35-merous flowers
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5pentamerous or 5-merous
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5-merous flowers


Explanation:
Monographia Aquifoliacearum - Ville de Genève
www.ville-ge.ch › Accueil › Index of species‎
Male flowers 4 -merous (4–5-mères selon _$Beck 8684_£), white. Calyx pubescent (poils courts, plus nombreux vers l'apex et sur le centre), 3–5 mm in diam., ...

ADVANCES IN GENETICS
books.google.fr/books?isbn=0080567959 - Traduire cette page
M. Demerec - 1956 - ‎Science
The flowers in both parental species, and for that matter in the entire genus Gilia and almost without exception in the family Polemoniaceae, are 5-merous with 5 ...

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Note added at 16 minutes (2014-03-31 17:07:09 GMT)
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or pentamerous flowers

Merosity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merosity‎Traduire cette page
It is most commonly used in the context of flowers, in which case it refers to the ... 4: tetramery, tetramerous, 4-merous; 5: pentamery, pentamerous, 5-merous ...pentamerous (Meaning of) - Encyclo
www.encyclo.co.uk/define/pentamerous‎Traduire cette page
pentamerous - Meaning and definition. ... five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members; `pentamerous flowers`
Pentamerous: Definition with Pentamerous Pictures and Photos
www.lexic.us/definition-of/pentamerous‎Traduire cette page
Divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members. "Pentamerous flowers". Category relationships: Botany ...

Drmanu49
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Excellent, fast response and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michele Fauble
33 mins
  -> Thank you Michele.

agree  philgoddard: Though I wouldn't use this in a text intended for a general readership. I know quite a bit about botany, but I'd never heard of this.
41 mins
  -> Thank you Phil.

agree  B D Finch: You got there first!
15 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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pentamerous or 5-merous


Explanation:
Merosity is the number of component parts in each whorl of a plant structure. It is most commonly used in the context of flowers, in which case it refers to the number of sepals in the calyx, the number of petals in the corolla, and the number of stamens in each whorl of the androecium. The term may also be used to refer to the number of leaves in leaf whorls.

Types of merosity include:

2: dimery, dimerous, 2-merous
3: trimery, trimerous, 3-merous
4: tetramery, tetramerous, 4-merous
5: pentamery, pentamerous, 5-merous



    Reference: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00985344
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neutral  Drmanu49: sounds like my answer...
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