cymose

[sahy-mohs, sahy-mohs]

adjective

Botany.

1. bearing a cyme or cymes.

2. of or of the nature of a cyme.

cymose

/ -məʊz, saɪˈməʊs, ˈsaɪməʊs /

adjective

1. having the characteristics of a cyme

Other Word Forms

• cymosely adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of cymose¹

First recorded in 1800–10, cymose is from the Latin word cymōsus full of shoots. See cyme, -ose ¹

Example Sentences

Erect or often prostrate, the lower clusters at least of pistillate flowers more or less cymose and often in globose heads; bracts thinner, narrow and lax, shorter than the fruit.

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B. cordifolium, 4 ft., has large cordate leaves, and heads of rich orange flowers in cymose panicles in July.

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Flowers.—Blue or white; small, usually not more than two or three lines across; borne in showy thyrsoid or cymose clusters.

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The flowers, which are generally arranged in a cymose inflorescence, are hermaphrodite, hypogynous, and, except in Pelargonium, regular.

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The inflorescence is generally cymose, often dichasial, recalling that of Caryophyllaceae, the lateral branches often becoming monochasial; it is sometimes reduced to a few flowers or one only, as in some gentians.

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