cymose
Americanadjective
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bearing a cyme or cymes.
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of or of the nature of a cyme.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of cymose
First recorded in 1800–10, cymose is from the Latin word cymōsus full of shoots. See cyme, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Styles thickened and glandular toward the base; achenes glabrous, numerous; inflorescence cymose.
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
Radicle superior.—Herbs, or rarely shrubs, with compound leaves, and solitary or cymose flowers; their parts rarely in fours.
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
But the Rose, Cinquefoil, Buttercup, etc., with alternate leaves, furnish also good examples of cymose inflorescence.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Seeds usually cylindrical.—Herbs or shrubs, with cymose yellow flowers.
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
Flowers cymose, mostly bracted; the open clusters terminal or crowded in the upper axils.
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
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