cyme

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cyme has 1 sense

cyme(n = noun.plant) Array - more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first; Array

is a kind of

inflorescence

has particulars: cymule, glomerule, scorpioid cyme

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cyme, n. [L. cyma the young sprount of a cabbage, fr. Gr. , prop., anything swollen, hence also cyme, wave, fr. to be pregnant.].

A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cyme, n. Bot. an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower that develops first, the system being continued by the axes of secondary and higher orders each with a flower (cf. RACEME).

Derivative

cymose adj.

Etymology

F, var. of cime summit, ult. f. Gk kuma wave

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