cymose

American  

[sahy-mohs, sahy-mohs] / ˈsaɪ moʊs, saɪˈmoʊs /

adjective

Botany.

1. bearing a cyme or cymes.

2. of or of the nature of a cyme.

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cymose British  

/ -məʊz, saɪˈməʊs, ˈsaɪməʊs /

adjective

1. having the characteristics of a cyme

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Other Word Forms

• cymosely
  adverb

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

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

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.

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

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

The flowers are stellate, cymose, on stems rising from the heart of the leafy rosettes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

The flowers stand singly in the leaf-axils or form few or many flowered cymose inflorescences; the flowers are sometimes crowded into small heads.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various