nounWord forms:  plural -mae (-miː)Word forms: -mas1. either of two mouldings having a double curve, part concave and part convex. Cyma recta has the convex part nearer the wall and cyma reversa has the concave part nearer the wall
 2.  botany  a rare variant of cyme 
 Word origin
C16: from New Latin, from Greek 
kuma something swollen, from 
kuein to be pregnant