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

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

To this form the terms trichasial and polychasial cyme have been applied; but these are now usually designated cymose umbels.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Calyx-tube straight, open, with ample 6-lobed limb, the lobes appendaged; anthers equidistant; erect herbs; flowers in axillary cymose fascicles.

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 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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

Styles filiform, not glandular at base; 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