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cyme C0838800 (sīm)n. A usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main axis and each branch end in a flower that opens before the flowers below or to the side of it. [Latin cȳma, young cabbage sprout, from Greek kūma, anything swollen, sprout; see cyma.]cyme (saɪm) n (Botany) an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems[C18: from Latin cӯma cabbage sprout, from Greek kuma anything swollen; see cyma] cymiferous adjcyme (saɪm) n. a flat or convex flower cluster in which all the floral stems end with a bloom and the central stem blooms first. [1595–1605; < Latin cȳma cabbage sprout < Greek kŷma] cyme (sīm) A usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main stem and each branch end in a flower. Baby's breath and the tomato have cymes.ThesaurusNoun | 1. | cyme - more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens firstinflorescence - the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalkcymule - a small cyme, generally with few flowersglomerule - a compacted or sessile cymescorpioid cyme - a cyme with flowers or branches alternating in opposite ranks |
Cyme
Cyme (sī`mē), ancient Greek city of W Asia Minor, on the Ionian Sea and N of the present Smyrna in W Asian Turkey. It was the largest and most important of the 12 cities of Aeolis. In the late 5th cent. B.C., Cyme struggled to be free of Persian domination but was only intermittently successful. Later it was a city of the Seleucids and ultimately of Rome.Cyme an inflorescence in the course of whose development each axis terminates in a flower and ceases to grow early. The lateral axes, that is, the branches of the inflorescence, outgrow the cyme. There may be a single lateral axis (monochasium), two lateral axes (dichasium), or more than two lateral axes (pleiochasium), all of which terminate in a flower. cyme[sīm] (botany) An inflorescence in which each main axis terminates in a single flower; secondary and tertiary axes may also have flowers, but with shorter flower stalks. cyme an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems cyme
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Words related to cymenoun more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens firstRelated Words- inflorescence
- cymule
- glomerule
- scorpioid cyme
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