As a lay man when it comes to botanic studies I find some of the terminology used can be obtuse. I believe it is important for a person to be able to understand the technical terminology of a subject. Unrelated to this, I have owned a reptile pet centre for 13 years. Herpetology (the study of reptiles & amphibians) uses numerous words to decribe elements of the study and can easy to hard to navigate to the uninitiated. So I thought I would share the meaning of some of the words I have stumbled across. Feel free to use the contact section of the webpage to make suggestions of other words I may have missed that could be useful to would be succulent keepers.
Terminology used for describing Inflorescences:
Inflorescences: the arrangement of flowers on the axis, the flowering part of a plant, a flower cluster, flowers collectively, the part of a plant that consists of the flower-bearing stalks
Secund: arranged on one side only; unilateral, having or designating parts arranged on or turned to one side of the axis. from Latin secundus following, from sequī to follow
Raceme: a compound inflorescence in which the short pedicels with single flowers of the simple raceme are replaced by racemes, an inflorescence in which the flowers are borne along the main stem, with the oldest flowers at the base. It can be simple, as in the foxglove, or compound which is termed a panicle. from Latin racemus “a cluster of grapes”
Racemose: having the form of a raceme.
Panicle: a compound raceme, any loose, diversely branching flower cluster.
Paniculate:arranged in panicles.
Pedical: a small stalk, one of the subordinate stalks in a branched inflorescence, bearing a single flower. New Latin pedicellus, diminutive of Latin pediculus a little foot
Bracts: a specialized leaf or leaflike part, usually situated at the base of a flower or inflorescence. Latin: a thin plate of metal
Cymes: an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems
Cymose: Bearing of a cyme or cymes.
Bifurcates: to divide or fork into two branches. 
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