cyme
Americannoun
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an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single central or terminal flower that blooms first.
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a flat or convex inflorescence of this type.
noun
Other Word Forms
- cymiferous adjective
Etymology
Origin of cyme
1595–1605; < Latin cȳma cabbage sprout < Greek kŷma; see cyma
Example Sentences
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"I cyme all the w'y from Ilford 'cause I'd never seen 'im," she cried.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Cymose, furnished with cymes, or like a cyme.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Stem short, naked above, the numerous racemes in a usually nearly simple cyme, leaves narrow, acuminate; seeds globose, without caruncle.—Del. and southward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Diagram of a scorpioid cyme, with opposite leaves or bracts.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
The general name of cyme is applied to the arrangement of a group of flowers in a definite inflorescence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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