cymen.¹

Brit.

/sʌɪm/, U.S.

/saɪm/

Forms: Also 1700s cime.

Etymology: < French cime, cyme, in the sense ‘top, summit’ (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) < popular Latin cima = Latin cyma (see cyma n.); in the Botanical sense an 18th cent. adaptation of the ancient Latin.

†1. (cime.) A ‘head’ (of unexpanded leaves, etc.). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > head or heart > [noun] > head or top

cropa700

top?1523

head1577

headlet1577

come1578

pome1658

cyma1706

cyme1725

capitulum1791

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sallet The Buds and tender Cime of Nettles by some eaten raw, by others boiled.

2. Botany (cyme.) A species of inflorescence wherein the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the system being continued by axes of secondary and higher orders which develop successively in like manner; a centrifugal or definite inflorescence: opposed to raceme n. Applied esp. to compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] > of particular type, shape, or arrangement > cyme or verticillaster

cyma1706

cyme1785

thyrsula1832

verticillaster1832

cincinnus1857

pleiochasium1890

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. v. 58 The arrangement of the flowers in the Elder is called a Cyme.

1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 250 The meadow-sweet, with its crowded cymes.

3. Architecture. = cyma n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > cornice > cymatium

cyma1563

cymatium1563

cymaise1656

gola1664

cyme1877

kymation1883

1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema III. xlvii. 106 This is what we call a cyme-joint, a cohesion of two curved surfaces.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cyme
释义	cymen.¹ Brit. /sʌɪm/, U.S. /saɪm/ Forms: Also 1700s cime. Etymology: < French cime, cyme, in the sense ‘top, summit’ (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter) < popular Latin cima = Latin cyma (see cyma n.); in the Botanical sense an 18th cent. adaptation of the ancient Latin. †1. (cime.) A ‘head’ (of unexpanded leaves, etc.). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > head or heart > [noun] > head or top cropa700 top?1523 head1577 headlet1577 come1578 pome1658 cyma1706 cyme1725 capitulum1791 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sallet The Buds and tender Cime of Nettles by some eaten raw, by others boiled. 2. Botany (cyme.) A species of inflorescence wherein the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the system being continued by axes of secondary and higher orders which develop successively in like manner; a centrifugal or definite inflorescence: opposed to raceme n. Applied esp. to compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] > of particular type, shape, or arrangement > cyme or verticillaster cyma1706 cyme1785 thyrsula1832 verticillaster1832 cincinnus1857 pleiochasium1890 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. v. 58 The arrangement of the flowers in the Elder is called a Cyme. 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 250 The meadow-sweet, with its crowded cymes. 3. Architecture. = cyma n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > cornice > cymatium cyma1563 cymatium1563 cymaise1656 gola1664 cyme1877 kymation1883 1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema III. xlvii. 106 This is what we call a cyme-joint, a cohesion of two curved surfaces. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cymen.² (Shakespeare Macbeth v. iii. 55, 1st Folio), supposed to be an error for cynne, senna n. Π a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. iii. 57 What Rubarb, Cyme, or what Purgatiue drugge Would scowre these English hence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.¹1725n.²a1616
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